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| Mexican Army bags 5 bad guys in Reynosa, Tamaulipas |
| 2011-10-24 |
| For a map, click here. For a map of Tamaulipas click here Five unidentified armed suspects were killed and another four were arrested in three separate shootings in Reynosa and Matamoros, Tamaulipas Saturday, according to Mexican news accounts. A Mexican Army detachment including a helicopter was on patrol in Reynosa when the ground unit came under small arms fire by an known number of armed suspects. Army return fire killed five. Reports say the corpses were evacuated by the suspects, which is a tactic used by Los Zetas. Seized following the encounter were 15 rifles, three handguns, three grenades, 152 weapons magazines, 4,164 rounds of ammunition and four vehicles. A second encounter in Reynosa yielded four detainees. Material seized included four assault rifles, 23 weapons magazines, 622 rounds of ammunition and a tanker with 15,000 liters of fuel. In a third encounter an army patrol in the Victoria colony of Matamoros came under small arms fire from an armed group firing from a residence. The suspects who fired on soldiers apparently fled the area shortly afterwards leaving 483 marijuana plants of various stages of growth. |
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