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Terror in Nuevo Leon: 2 Die, 6 Cops Kidnapped

2011-05-05

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Armed groups in Linares, Nuevo Leon fought battles in the streets for several hours Wednesday morning, abducting six traffic police officers before Mexican Army units intervened in the fighting, according to Mexican news reports.

"That'll do, that'll do. To your corners boys, until we ring the bell for the next round."

Reports say a large convoy of 20 vehicles with armed suspects aboard entered the city in the Galeana colony when the fighting began. The fighting was said to be over territory between criminal gangs.

Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon are a battle ground area between Los Zetas and their former allies the Gulf cartel.

The fighting erupted in the Infonavit Rodrigo GÃ³mez colony of Linares lasting 30 minutes. A gas pipeline in the area was damaged by small arms fire by armed suspects, presumably as a diversionary measure.

On Miguel Hidalgo an abandoned police vehicle was found. Police officers Jose Antonio Correa Garcia and Jose Guadalupe Guerrero Sustaita are presumed to have been kidnapped.

Following the attack on the gas line four more police officers, Juan Carlos Garza Chavia, Sergio Francisco MuÃ±oz, Inocencio Lerma Perales and Antonio Barajas Castillo, were said to have been kidnapped by armed suspects on Avenida Industria Alimenticia in the Parque Industrial colony.

A number of carjackings were reported in the Las Alamedas colony. Three stolen vehicles were recovered near the highway exit to Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.

An unofficial death toll stands at two dead armed suspects, although at this point it is unclear if the dead were killed by security forces or by rival gangs.

Various social media reported the use of grenades and machine guns during the shootings, especially around Las Alamedas colony.

Linares was a site last April 25th where a bus was fired on wounding one individual. Linares sits astride Mexican Interstate Highway 85 from Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas to Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, and is less than 10 kilometers due northeast of the Nuevo Leon-Tamaulipas border.
To read Rantburg reports on the triple bus shootings as well as an Easter eve attack in Tampico, Tamaulipas in late in April click here.

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