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Caribbean-Latin America
5 die in shooting in Torreon in Coahuila
2012-12-19

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A total of five individuals were shot to death and another two were wounded in an armed assault on a bar in Torreon, Coahuila Monday night, according to Mexican news accounts.

A news item which appeared on the online edition of El Diario de Coahuila news daily said that attack started at the Texas bar near the intersection of Boulevard de las Fuentes Diagonal and Paseo de la Rosita at around 2100 hrs near La Rosita colony.

Armed suspects were seen fleeing the scene aboard a Matiz sedan after the shooting. Two of the four men men who died as the scene were identified as Federico Sifuentes Vazquez, 45, and Hector Juarez Gomez, 38. The two other unidentified victims were in their 30s and 40s. Three more unidentified men in their 20s and 30s were also shot, one of whom died while receiving medical care.

The report says about forty 9mm spent cartridge casings were left at the scene.
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