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| Bad Guys Torch Another Village in Durango |
| 2011-04-06 |
| For a map click here For a map of Durango, click here. A total of four residences and eight vehicles were torched by armed suspects in a remote area of western Durango, according to several Mexican news sources. Reports say Friday residents of El Zapote de Buena Vista in the San Dimas municipality fled to surrounding hills when a six vehicle convoy was observed entering the village from the west. The village had only women and children as its population. No one was reported hurt in the attack. Reports also say the attack was a response to a confrontation a day earlier when an unidentified resident of El Zapote de Buena Vista assaulted armed suspects in self defense. The resident was killed by suspects the day before they entered the village to torch it. A Mexican Army detachment only Monday arrived in the location. Residents had not evacuated the area despite the attack. Several remote locations in western Durango served as drug growing area for Mexican drug cartels. As with many of the small communities in western Durango, they are occupied by Indian tribes who engage in farming as their occupation. Western Durango sits astride the Sierra Madres Occidental mountain range, which is some of the most rugged and inaccessible terrain the North America. Several remote communities have run afoul of drug gangs in the recent past. Several attacks and intergang firefights have taken place since early October 2010 in Otaez, Pueblo Nuevo and Pueblo Ideal municipalities. To read Rantburg reports on previous attacks and shootouts in western Durango, click here, and follow the links. San Dimas municipality is about 80 kilometers north of the east-west Mexican Highway 40, which is the main communications road that runs from the Mexican state of Sinaloa to points east including the states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 4 houses make a village? I must live in a friggin megalopolis. |
| Posted by: Steven 2011-04-06 15:52 |
