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| Death in Durango: Toll in Mass Graves Rises to 236 |
| 2011-06-09 |
| For a map, click here. For a map of Durango, click here See see the last Rantburg report on the Durango mass murders click here The death toll in Durango, Durango rose to 236 as 12 more bodies were recovered, according to Mexican news accounts. News reports to date have failed to note from which of the seven sites found so far the additional 12 bodies were recovered. Amoung the sites where bodies were exhumed are Valle del Guadiana, Jardines de Durango, La Providencia, Fuentes and Vicente Suarez colonies. Exhumations have been ongoing since April. In other news, two Mexican Federal agents were shot to death and a PF commander was wounded in Gomez Palacio in far eastern Durango. The shooting took place on calle Lerdo de Tejada where three armed suspects aboard a pickup truck fired on the agents. The agents were identified as Juan Antonio Garcia Cruz and Juan Antonio MartÃÂinez Padilla. The wounded commander was identified as Carlos Borgute. Meanwhile near Santiago Papasquiaro, two men were found shot to death near the village of Guatimape village in Nuevo Ideal municipality. The dead were identified as Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Bueno, 23, and Jose Alfredo Chavez, 30, both of Santiago Papasquiaro. |
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