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A total of 22 individuals were killed in and around Monterrey, Neuvo Leon Wednesday and Thursday, including five armed suspects who died in a firefight with the Mexican Army in Cadereyta.
- A Mexican Army unit shot and killed five armed suspects in Cadereyta Jimenez Wednesday night. The unit was on patrol on Kilometer 2 of the Cadereyta-Allende bypass in the Bella Vista colony when a vehicle was spotted a suspicious vehicle. Instead of stopping when ordered, the suspects aboard the vehicle opened fire on the soldiers. Return fire by the army stuck and killed all five suspects. The driver crashed the vehicle into roadside brush. Seven rifles were seized in the aftermath.
- Armed suspects attacked a joint Mexican Army-Policia Federal patrol in Pesqeria, Nuevo Leon Thursday morning, with return fire killing four suspects. The patrol was on the Apodaca-Zacatequitas road when the firefight took place. The suspects were travelling aboard two vehicles when they ran into the security group. One of the vehicles escaped security forces, and despite support from a helicopter, the remaining suspects were not found.
A roadblock was put up presumably by criminal forces on the Agua Fria bridge, as well as Miguel Alemán-PesquerÃÂa and Antiguo Camino-Agua FrÃÂa roads. All blocks were reportedly moved by Policia Federal units.
- Ten individuals were killed in several incidents in and around Monterrey Wednesday.
An unidentified man was found mutilated at a shopping mall in the Cumbres colony. The victim was beheaded and dismembered. A message was left at the scene, but its content was not disclosed.
- An unidentified man was found dead at 0700 hrs in Los Olivios colony of Escobedo. The victim was bound hand and foot, and had been mutilated by dogs.
- An unidentified men in his 20s was found shot to death 0730 hrs in the village of El Faisan in Santiago municipality. The victim was bound by his hands and shot five times.
- A youth was shot to death in a drive by shooting in northern Monterrey. Oscar Alejandro de la Rosa Vera, 17, was shot by armed suspects near the intersection of calles Julio Camelo and Luis Echeverria in the Francisco Villa colony.
- An unidentified woman was found buried in the rubble of a house in Juarez, Nuevo Leon demolished by the Mexican Army. The army unit has just completed the rescue of a hostage and the arrest of a suspect at a residence on Avenida Mexico in the America Unida colony when the house was destroyed.
- Four armed suspects were killed by a Mexican Army unit in the Cumbres colony at about 1750 hrs. The suspects were apparently changing vehicles when the army unit rolled up on them.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death on the National Highway at about 2200 hrs in Santiago municipality.
Two unidentified men were found shot to death in Santa Catarina Thursday. The victims were in Trabajadores colony when they were found.
An unidentified individual was found dismembered in south Monterrey Thursday morning. The remains of the victim were placed in black plastic bags and left near the intersection of calles Alfredo Garza Rio and Bernabe de las Casas in the Arturo B. de la Garza colony. |
