Thursday 14 March 2013

Fifteen reported killed around Mexico, 10 held

Seven people were gunned down in the adjacent districts of Zapopan and Guadalajara in the western state of Jalisco on the night of 13-14 March; they were among at least 15 most recently reported as killed or found dead in apparent criminal incidents around Mexico. Three of the victims, aged 20 to 23, were shot inside and at the entrance of a bar in Zapopan, while a 17-year-old was shot elsewhere in the city that night, El Siglo de Torreón reported. A policeman and his assassin, shot by another policeman, were among the victims in Guadalajara. Three women were found with their throats slit or strangled to death in the states of Chihuahua and Estado de México in northern and central Mexico, on 13 March. Two were nursing students whose bodies were found dumped in a neighbourhood of Chihuahua, while another was found in her home by her son, Proceso reported. The daily also reported a notary's shooting death in Polanco, a middle-class district of Mexico City. In northern Mexico, a man's body with shot wounds was found in Torreón on 13 March, El Siglo de Torreón reported, and three men in their 20s were found dead in a car in the nearby district of Lerdo early on 14 March, Milenio reported. In the east-coast state of Veracruz, troops detained 10 suspected gangsters after a shootout near a shopping centre in the district of Córdoba, Milenio reported. Police reportedly went to the centre after someone phoned them; the suspects had been seen armed in the shopping centre car park, and began to shoot and sought to flee when police arrived.

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