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| Terror in Tamaulipas: Bad Guys Fire on 3 Buses, 3 Wounded -- Updated |
| 2011-04-25 |
| For a map, click here. For a map of Tamaulipas, click here. Adding news about attacks on businesses in Tampico in southern Tamaulipas early Sunday morning. Three public buses came under small arms fire in three separate incidents in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas Saturday, according to Mexican news reports. Three people, two women and a man were wounded in the gunfire. None of the attacks took place on the road that runs through San Fernando, the site of the worst mass murder in modern Mexican history, but all had a starting terminus in Ciudad Victora, Tamaulipas. Two of the buses were fired on around 0500 hrs in the Hidalgo municipality which is directly adjacent to the border. Both buses were bound for Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. The third bus was attacked in Linares, Nuevo Leon, about 40 kilometers north of Hidalgo municipality, the location of the other two attacks. José de Jesus Espinoza de Leon, who was bound for Nuevo Laredo, was last reported in intensive care, but his condition was not reported, while the other two victims, Coronado Imelda Benitez and Alejandra Lugo Smith were reported out of danger. In other news, the Mexican daily Milenio reported that a number of businesses in the southern Tamaulipas port of Tampico were hit with gunfire, and at least one was torched early Sunday morning. The first of the attacks began at 0345 hrs. when armed suspects fired their weapons into a Soriana department store on Avenida Monterrey, and set it afire. Four unidentified individuals were wounded in a small arms attack early Sunday morning on Avenida Monterrey. A convenience store and at least two auto dealerships were damaged from gunfire centered around Avenida Miguel Hidalgo. Despite the visible presence of Mexican Army units and other security forces following Sunday morning's attacks, about 430,000 people gathered on the beaches for Easter Sunday. |
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