Friday 28 June 2013

Over 25 reported shot around Mexico

No less than 27 were reported shot dead around Mexico between 25 and 28 June, in incidents including shootouts with troops and police, gun fights between gangsters and criminal executions. Gunmen shot dead four employees of a cosmetics firm in the northern city of Juárez as they sprayed the firm's premises with gunfire early on 28 June, the broadcaster Azteca reported. Four men were executed the evening before in Madera in the northern state of Chihuahua; a note was left by the dead alleging they had been kidnappers, Proceso reported. The executioners were said to have arrived in 10 cars, then placed the victims against a wall and shot them. Eight were killed in the evening of 27 June in Fresnillo in the north-central state of Zacatecas, in shootouts between gangsters and with the army, the website Zacatecas en linea reported. Six of the victims apparently ran into an army patrol while fleeing the first shootout in two cars; they fired on the army vehicle and were shot dead. In the state capital Zacatecas a man was shot dead in a bar very early on 27 June, Azteca television reported. Early on 28 June police shot dead an armed man in the district of Cuautlán de García Barragán in the western state of Jalisco after a patrol came under fire, El Siglo de Torreón reported. Four gunmen and a soldier were killed early on 26 June in a shootout near a school in the northern city of Reynosa, national media reported. This and a shootout late on 25 June in San Fernando south of Reynosa left in total nine dead on 25-26 June in the state of Tamaulipas bordering the United States, Proceso reported.

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