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| Remains found at ranch near Nuevo Laredo |
| 2005-07-01 |
| NUEVO LAREDO, MEXICO - Teams of Mexican federal agents were searching a remote ranch house where charred remains were found in gasoline drums, a federal prosecutor said Thursday. The search was made of a small house, surrounded by a black metal fence, about 30 minutes outside of Nuevo Laredo on the highway to Monterrey. Local newspapers are referring to the location as a "Narco-fosa," or mass grave for victims of narcotics traffickers. "They have found remains," said a prosecutor with the Mexican Attorney General's Office in Nuevo Laredo. "They are going to determine if they are the remains of animals, or humans. They have been burned and were found in some gasoline barrels." A large group of AFIs, as Mexico's special investigation agents are known, kept reporters away from the house. Mexico City reporter Eduardo Cano, of TV Azteca, was able to film inside the house and said he saw six pieces of bone including a pelvis and ribs that appeared human. "There were ashes, like they had burned a body," he said. Cano said there were 20 large gasoline drums next to the house, and scattered around were shirts, jeans, tennis shoes, anax, shovel and spent bullet casings from a pistol. "They don't know if they are human remains. They are going to have to do some tests," the reporter said. Cano said agents at the scene spoke of as many as four sets of human remains, and were planning to excavate an area to look for more. Two drug gangs have been warring over control of Nuevo Laredo and the interstate highway into Texas. More than 75 people have been slain in the drug-related violence since the first of the year. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 sumones probly makerin tamalees agayn. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-07-01 16:10 |
| #1 Looks like someone pissed off the local cartel. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-07-01 14:38 |