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| Hidalgo Police Chief Dies, 3 Cops Hurt in Car Bomb Explosion |
| 2011-01-22 |
| For a map, here. For a map of Hidalgo, click here. A photo gallery of the crime scene can be found here Updated with new information from Hidalgo state police director. Hidalgo State Police Director Fingers Los Zetas for the Attack A car bomb detonated with four police officers nearby near El Carmen killing one police chief in Hildago Saturday morning, according to Mexican news accounts. Police Commander Victor Peña died of his injuries in a Pachuca hospital while two municipal police officers, José Luis Lopez, José Luis Perez and another unidentified police agent were also wounded. The police were sent to a location near the Tula-El Carmen section of the interstate highway to investigate an abandoned Volkswagen sedan reported to have a dead body inside. When the officers went to open the trunk, an explosion occurred. A threatening "narcomessage" was left at the site but news reports did not detail its contents. Damiän Canales Mena, the head of the Hidalgo state police corporation Secretaria de Seguridad Publica said this afternoon that the Los Zeta criminal gang was most likely responsible for the attack. Canales Mena also hinted that the attack was a response to the recent deaths of two Los Zetas operatives in Hidaldo. The report does not mention if this information was the information contained in the "narcomessage" left at the scene. Canales Mena said chief Peña's death would not go unpunished. The bomb was the fifth such explosion in a week in Mexico with three other minor explosions taking place in Nuevo Leon and a fourth explosion which destroyed a Datsun sedan and killed two in Tabasco. |
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