Mexico gunmen torch buildings, kidnap 2 near Texas

Oct. 1, 2008, 10:47PM
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican authorities say armed men posing as federal police torched five buildings and kidnapped two men in a village near the Texas border.

Chihuahua state prosecutor's spokesman Alejandro Pariente says witnesses told police the gunmen arrived in the hamlet of El Barreal before dawn Tuesday and barged into several homes looking for the two men.

He says one of the men was a chicken farmer who was also involved in cock fighting. The attackers burned four houses and a convenience store to the ground before leaving.

Pariente said Wednesday that investigators have not determined a motive for the attack, but the area is a hotbed of drug trafficking.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6035333.html