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| Car Bomb Explodes in Tamaulipas |
| 2011-03-16 |
| For a map, click here. For a map of Tamaulipas, click here A car bomb exploded in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas Tuesday afternoon wounding five individuals, according to Mexican and English language news reports. The vehicle used in the attack was parked outside the PolicÃÂa Municipal Preventiva de Ciudad Victoria police station and near a kindergarten. The car bomb exploded at about 1520 hrs. Neither Mexican news reports nor English language reports say exactly where in Ciudad Victoria the attacks took place. Initial reports provided by Mexican officials and published in international versions say a female civilian and a police officer were hurt in the bombing, while the Mexican news daily Milenio and the Mexican leftist weekly Proceso says the casualties later rose to five total were hurt. Damaged was limited to glass at the police station and facades of nearby businesses. The car carrying the bomb was totally destroyed in the detonation. Last August 25th, two car bombs detonated in Ciudad Victoria, one at a Televisa television studio and the other at a Transit Police station. Two weeks before that, a car bomb was detonated outside a Tamaulipas state rural police headquarters. To read Rantburg reports on the August 25th, 2010 car bomb attacks, click here. To read Rantburg reports about the August 5th, 2010 attack, click here. No one was reported hurt in any of the August, 2010 car bombings. |
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