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Mexico gang shootout leaves scores dead

Mexico gang shootout leaves scores dead

Two suspected rival drug gangs clashed in a shootout on a desolate highway in the Pacific Coast state of Nayarit, authorities said Wednesday. To date, thousands have been killed as a result of the government's four-year crackdown on drug cartels.

By News Wires (text)
 

REUTERS - Twenty-eight people were killed in a shootout among suspected rival drug gangs on a remote highway in the Mexican Pacific Coast state of Nayarit, authorities said.

Police found 28 bodies strewn around 10 abandoned cars on a federal highway, Nayarit’s state prosecutor’s office said in a statement late on Wednesday. Four others were wounded.
 
Officers found the crime scene after following up on a reported kidnapping, the statement said.
 
More than 38,000 people have been killed in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched an army-backed crackdown on drug cartels four years ago, sparking bloody criminal turf wars and street battles with federal security forces.
 
Also on Wednesday, Mexican police captured a suspected drug enforcer blamed for ordering the murder of the son of a prominent poet, which helped prompt national protests against the government’s drug war strategy. 
Date created : 26/05/2011 
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