Thread: Tijuana: 159 killed this month 695 this year

Three bodies discovered on Tijuana baseball field

November 24, 2008

TIJUANA: Three bodies, two of them decapitated, were found yesterday morning dumped on baseball fields in Tijuana.

The three were among eight men found dead Saturday night and yesterday in the city, the Baja California Attorney General's Office said.

In addition, Rosarito Beach police reported finding a dismembered male body in a car on the city's main thoroughfare.
The number of deaths in Tijuana linked to battles between drug cartels has reached 152 in November, and 695 since Jan. 1, according to the state Attorney General's Office. There were 337 killings citywide in 2007.

Gunmen shot to death four people and wounded five others in two attacks Saturday night, the office reported.

At 8:15 a.m. yesterday, police officers found the bodies of three men wrapped in plastic bags behind baseball fields on the east side of the city. Police found the heads of two bodies nearby.

At 9 a.m., also on the east side, police found a man's body with hands and feet tied. The man had been shot.

Police in Rosarito Beach said that at 7 a.m. yesterday, officers found the body of man whose arms had been cut off in the trunk of a Ford Escort. The body was inside a plastic bag.

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Gunmen open fire in Tijuana bar, 6 killed

The Associated Press 4:40 p.m. November 22, 2008

TIJUANA, Mexico — Six people are dead after gunmen burst into a Tijuana bar popular with university students and opened fire.
The local Public Safety Department says witnesses reported that three people dressed in black rushed into Bar Utopia and started shooting without saying a word.
The state Attorney General's office says two men and a woman died instantly in Friday night's attack. The three others died in hospitals Saturday.
The bar is located in a neighborhood with three university campuses and is popular with students. Most of the victims were under 30 years old.
Police named no suspects or motive.
Drug turf battles have fueled a wave of violence that has swept through Tijuana and other cities across Mexico.
(This version CORRECTS dateline to Tijuana, Mexico.)

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