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Caribbean-Latin America
25 die in Sinaloa state
2011-11-24
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A total of 25 individuals were murdered in several locations in Sinaloa state since early Wednesday morning, according to Mexican news accounts.

In the capital Culican 16 individuals were found immolated and left aboard two separate vehicles.

Eight of the victims were abducted in the village of Angostura, and included three municipal police officers and one female.

The three murdered police agents were identified as first officer Santos Cardenas Hernandez, and Juan Carlos Mascorro and Rosario Bojorquez Hernandez.

Other victims, who had been kidnapped in the town of Lara included brothers Martin and Guadalupe Gomez Almazan, Pedro Medina Aguilar, Pedro Nuñez Lizarraga and Herculano Burgos.

Twelve of the victims including the female victim were found aboard a Nissan truck in the Rosario colony of Culican, while the other four were found in Zona Tres Rios.

Other victims were found in other parts of Culican:
  • Two unidentified individuals were found bound hand and foot, and were shot to death in Culican, but reports do not detail where in the city they were found.

  • Four unidentified individuals were found shot to death in the village of Colomato in receivership Pericos, Mocorito, where the victims were aboard a compact sedan when they were fired on. Two of the victims attempted to flee the kill zone but were found shot dead a short distance away.

  • In the city of Salvador Alvarado three unidentified individuals were found bound hand and foot and shot to death.

Sinaloa state officials attribute the sudden rise in violence to recently concluded Mexican military operations which dismantled a number of synthetic drug laboratories. Those actions took place in Ahome, Mazatlan and Navolato municipalities.

The violence is said to be between rival criminal groups.
Posted by:badanov

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