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Mayor of Mexican city among five killed in shootout

VERACRUZ, Mexico The mayor of a southern Mexican city was one of five people killed today during a highway shootout in the Veracruz.

Officials are investigating whether the shootings were drug related.

Police found three bullet-ridden bodies alongside a road in the city of Veracruz and the remains of a fourth man inside a vehicle nearby.

A fifth victim was rushed to a hospital -- but died.

State interior secretary Reynaldo Escobar says Tadeo Manriquez, who was mayor of Ixtepec City in Oaxaca state, was among those killed.

Escobar says the mayor was apparently passing through Veracruz en route to another destination and may have been riding with his city's chief of police and his brother.

Investigators said the deaths appeared to have been the result of a running shootout that began on the highway between two groups.

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Mayor of Mexican city among five killed in shootout


By Miguel Hernandez
ASSOCIATED PRESS

6:33 p.m. January 13, 2006

VERACRUZ, Mexico – The mayor of a southern Mexican town was one of five people killed Friday during a highway shootout in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz that could have been drug-related, officials said.
Police found three bullet-ridden bodies laying outside the open doors of a black Jeep Grand Cherokee with official plates alongside a road outside the port city of Veracruz.

The remains of a fourth man were recovered inside a beige Ford Expedition nearby, while the fifth victim was rushed to the hospital for treatment but died a short time later, said Reynaldo Escobar, state interior secretary for Veracruz.

Escobar said Negib Tadeo Manriquez, mayor of Ciudad Ixtepec in Oaxaca state, which borders Veracruz to the south, was among those killed by fire from machine guns and automatic rifles. His father, Jorge Alberto Manriquez, was also killed as was an uncle, Carlos Erick Manriquez.

Also killed was the head of the Ixtepec Judicial Police, who had been serving as a bodyguard for the mayor, Escobar said. The Interior Secretary identified the final two victims as Edilberto Santiago and Cruz Fomperosa, but would not way which was the police director.

Investigators believe the only body recovered inside a vehicle belonged to the mayor, but had yet to confirm that.

Witnesses told investigators a shootout started shortly before 3 p.m. Friday, when two red and white sport utility vehicles overtook the pair of vehicles carrying the mayor and his associates on a highway linking Veracruz city and Xalapa, the state capital.

A van traveling on the highway that got caught in the crossfire sustained two gunshot wounds, but the high school teacher inside, Guillermina Contreras, was unharmed.

"It seems these people were just passing through Veracruz state and were targeted here," said Marco Antonio Aguialr, the state's deputy attorney general.

Forensic teams recovered more than 40 bullet casings in and around the vehicles and said it was clear that members of the mayor's entourage had returned fire. No weapons were recovered at the scene, however, leading authorities to believe the other group of shooters stopped and made off with the guns.

No arrests were made.

Escobar said that on Monday, state authorities from Veracruz and Oaxaca would hold an emergency meeting to discuss how best to react to a recent rash of killings in the area.

A few weeks ago, farming leader Cesar Toimil was shot and killed near the Veracruz-Oaxaca border.

With a population of more than 25,000, Ciudad Iztepec is located in a rural corner of southeastern Oaxaca, about 20 miles (35 kilometers) north of the Pacific Coast and 75 miles (120 kilometers) south of the border with Veracruz. A busy stop on southern Mexico's railroad lines, the area has become increasingly crowded with undocumented Central American migrants who jump trains heading north through Mexico en route to the U.S. border.

This is a preview of what's to happen in the US in how many years?

would have been a good day to call in sick.

This is a preview of what's to happen in the US in how many years?
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The way we're going? About 3 years at most.

RR

It looks like the Fox-Bush pr guy, Rob "Mexico is a wonderful place" Allyn, is going to really have to work hard to earn his money.

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