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March 13th Mayhem in Monterrey: Mexican Army bags 6 bad guys |
2012-03-14 |
For a map, click here. For a map of Nuevo Leon state, click here. For a map of Monterrey, click here. By Chris Covert Rantburg.com Six unidentified suspects were shot and killed by an Mexican Army patrol Monday night in Los Herrera municipality in Nuevo Leon state, according to Mexican news accounts. Four men and two women were killed in the incident. Reports are unclear as to if the suspects fired on the army patrol first, but news reports make it clear shots were exchanged. The suspects were travelling aboard a Chevrolet Aveo and a Honda sedan along Los Herrera-Cerralvo when they encountered the army patrol. Agents with the Nuevo Leon Agencia Estatal de Investigaciones (AEI) said that several assault rifles and quantities of ammunition were found in the vehicles, along with quantities of drugs, which type was not disclosed in reports. It was also disclosed that the dead were probably part of one of the Tamaulipas drug gangs, though the report did not elaborate. Los Herrera is about 75 kilometers due east of Monterrey, astride a road linking Mexican Federal Highway 40 with Federal Highway 54 in Cerralvo. Three other shootings took place Monday and Tuesday, including one Escobedo municipal traffic police agent shot dead.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com. |
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