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| Hoax: Rumor of Major Gunbattle In Cananea Mexico False |
| 2007-05-19 |
| Reports of a heavily armed column of gunmen advancing on Cananea, Sonora, were “a joke made in poor taste,” the city’s mayor said Friday afternoon. At shortly after 10 a.m. Friday, Mayor Luis Cha Flores issued a state of alert for his city after receiving what were then described as credible reports that a convoy of rogue gunmen had entered a town 10 miles west of Cananea. But by early afternoon, Cha Flores was calling the reports a false alarm, and urged the people of Cananea to return to their normal activities, the Hermosillo newspaper El Imparcial reported on its website. Sonora state attorney general Abel Murrieta Gutierrez had earlier dismissed the reports as unreliable. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #8 Testing, 1, 2, 3. Testing. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-05-19 14:41 |
| #7 Jan, "back to normal" means 'dormido en el interruptor' i.e. 'siesta'. you impertinent narcoterrorist are interrupting my sleepy time. |
| Posted by: Gringo 2007-05-19 14:37 |
| #6 Jan, "back to normal" means 'dormido en el interruptor' i.e. 'siesta'. |
| Posted by: CochinoMarrano 2007-05-19 13:05 |
| #5 Apparently not a joke from later reports. There was a shootout. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-05-19 12:22 |
| #4 The Army el Norte is stand ready for eventuals todd. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-05-19 10:29 |
| #3 So...was there a major drug trans-shipment somewhere else along the border? Seems like a feint to draw attention, no? |
| Posted by: mjh 2007-05-19 09:00 |
| #2 Reports of a heavily armed column of gunmen advancing on Cananea, Sonor Mayor, there is a heavily armed column of soldiers with air support advancing to engage the gunmen. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-05-19 08:40 |
| #1 no real surprise that this could have been true. Thankfully it isn't, but it's probably only a matter of time. Wonder what "back to normal" regarding security means. |
| Posted by: Jan 2007-05-19 00:18 |