90 Die in Northern Mexico
A total of 90 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang violence which included a female police officer in Juarez shot to death along with another woman, and the bodyguard of a senior police official in Torreon, Coahula found beheaded.
The mass grave with 72 dead and the six dead in Reynosa, Tamaulipas from yesterday's fighting are being included in today's compilation total. For a map, click here.
- A female police officer and another woman were shot to death in Juarez Tuesday afternoon, say Mexican press reports. Magaly Almond Caldera, 23, and Felipa Olivas, 35, were attacked by armed suspects near the intersection of calles Higuera and Gladiolas in the Altavista district. An unknown number of armed suspects riding aboard a Chevrolet Blazer are to have shot the women. An unidentified child was with the pair, and was wounded in the attack.
- An unidentified women in her 20s was found shot to death and mutilated in northern Chihuahua, Chihuahua Tuesday afternoon, according to Mexican press reports. The victim was apparently burned with a tire placed over her head after she was shot. The victim was dumped at a vacant lot.
- Three men were found shot to death in Juarez Monday night, say Mexican press accounts. The discovery was made on Calle Casita on the Belleza district where the victims were found dead, shot using AK-47 assault rifles. One victim was identified as Adan Meraz Nuñez, 28. The other two have not been identified.
- A man was shot to death in Mexicali, Baja California, say Mexican news reports. Alejandro Gutierrez Gonzalez was found near the intersection of Calle Mixteca and Avenida Coronango in the Ãngeles de Puebla district. He was shot twice by unknown armed suspects in a moving vehicle.. Investigators found two pistols on the victim's body.
- Two unidentified men were found dead in Tijuana, Baja California, say Mexican news reports. Officials were brought to Calle Margaritas extension in the Three of October district following the arrest of four suspects from a shootout following a drug deal that went bad. They were told four individuals were to be found on the property, a residence. One victim was found inside a cluttered room and the other was found buried in the ground. Both victims had been beaten to death. The four suspects are allegedly involved in a kidnap scheme in Tijuana. Four of their victim were rescued.
- The mutilated body of of a police official bodyguard was found in Torreon, Coahuila, according to Mexican press reports. The discovery was made on Avenida Revolucion near a sports complex where the body and a message was found. The presumed relatives of the bodyguard could not identify the body positively. Reports do not say how the victim was killed before being mutilated. The victim was a bodyguard for the chief of the Torreon municipal Seguridad Publica, Bibiano Villa Castillo.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death in Torreon, Coahuila, according to Mexican press reports. The body was found near the intersection of Bulevar Madero and Calle Eulalio Gutierrez in the Luis Echeverria district with his feet bound and his legs broken.
- A man was found shot and drown near a farm in Torreon Monday, say Mexican press accounts. Rafael Burciaga Granados, 37, was shot in the thorax and was found in an irrigation canal near the La Partida farm. The body was in a state of decomposition, and was originally reported as a drowning.
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