Thread: Gunmen kill 9 cops, 4 others in Mexico

Gunmen kill 13 people in southern Mexican town

Feb. 24, 2010 10:54 AM
Associated Press .

OAXACA, Mexico - Gunmen stormed a rural town in southern Mexico, killing nine police officers before gunning down a rancher and his three sons, an official said Wednesday.

The hooded assailants drove into San Vicente Camalote in several vehicles Tuesday night and killed the police officers at a checkpoint, said Netolin Chavez, deputy attorney general of Oaxaca state, where the town is located.

They then invaded the ranch of Alfonso Maciel, killing him and his three sons - one of whom was a minor. Chavez said investigators believe the attack was related to drugs, but he had no other details.

State police were sent to patrol the town.

A state police officer said previously that several people might have been kidnapped, but Chavez said nobody was taken.

Oaxaca, a Pacific coast state with a picturesque colonial capital, ancient Zapotec ruins and pristine beaches, is considered a drug trafficking corridor, although violence there has not risen to the levels plaguing the northern border region.

The massacre was the second mass killing in Mexico in less than a month.

On Jan. 30, gunmen killed 15 people in a working-class neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, a city facing El Paso, Texas, that has become one of the world's deadliest places. Most of the dead were teenagers at a party with no known ties to drug gangs.

Authorities say gunmen in the Ciudad Juarez shootings may have acted on mistaken information - fueling anger over a drug war that has increasingly taken a toll on civilians.

A record 15,000 people have died in drug gang violence since President Felipe Calderon took office in 2006 and deployed thousands of troops to root out brutal cartels.

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This will be happening here In the United States If the traitors In congress keep ignoring Illegal Immigration...

It's those good family values we keep hearing about. These are simply jobs Americans won't do. Let's give these bandits amnesty and a Dream Act education.