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by Chris Covert
A seventh gravesite has been discovered in Durango, Durango Friday yielding three more bodies and raising the total dead in Durango city to 221, according to Mexican new reports.
Since April 11th Mexican security forces have been developing information on and exhuming several mass graves within the city from murders committed over a four year period.
For the last Rantburg report on the Durango mass murders, click here.
The Durango state attorney general's office (FGE) reported Monday that forensics workers are currently conducting an average of eight DNA tests per day. Some of the bodies are being kept in a refrigerated truck trailer for storage until identification and interment can be done.
The new gravesite is in the Jardines de Durango colony in the center of the city.
In related news, eight armed suspects and one police officer were killed in three separate shootings in Durango.
- A confrontaton between Mexican Naval Infantry and armed suspects in Durango city Saturday has left a total of three armed suspects dead and five wounded. The firefight began at a residence in calle Gladiola in the Jardines de Durango colony as Mexican Marines were fired on by armed suspects 0500 hrs Saturday morning initiating a firefight that last three hours. Jardines de Durango is considered a barrio and is also the location of the latest grave in the Durango mass graves.
The residence where the initial firefight began was also a safe houses used for kidnapping by organized crime. One unidentified individual was rescued.
The three dead were identified Monday as Abel Núñez Noriega, 31 , of Mexicali, Baja California, Arnoldo Zepeda Beltran, 37 , of Culiacan, Sinaloa and Jorge Ruben Fuerte Flores, 21, Mexico state.
- Five armed suspects were killed and three Durango state police agents were wounded in an ambush north of Durango city Sunday.
Reports say a group of Durango state police agents were transporting car theft suspects to Durango city when they came upon a false checkpoint in the village of El Pipila in the San Juan del Rio municipality and were fired on by armed suspects.
San Juan del Rio is halfway between Durango and La Laguna, the metropolitan area that includes Torreon, Coahuila and Gomez Palacio, Durango in far eastern Durango.
- A Durango state highway patrol officer was shot to death and three other police agents were wounded in an ambush in La Ferreria, Durango Monday. A traffic accident at the perimeter fence of Colegio de Bachilleres Juana Villalobos brought to the scene Policia Vial officer Elizabeth Escobedo Renteria, 35, where she was killed and three other officers were wounded.
- Four prison employees of the Durango state Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) have been detained for their involvement in a shootout within the prison last week that cost the lives of nine inmates and wounded ten others.
Olegario Castillo Hernandez, Jesus Alberto Muñoz Hernandez, Grajelio Mendia Solis and Felipe Amador Romero were detained on charges of having a nexus to organized crime and illegal firearms possession.
Reports say Chief of Trustees Felipe Amador Romero provided security for a prison gang known as MS for about three weeks prior to the shootout. A quantity of drug and guns fell into the hands of inmates during that time.
The seizure conducted by Polica Federal agents last week include one .32 caliber pistol, one 9 mm pistol, one .380 caliber pistol two 9mm submachine guns, one 12 gauge shotgun, a firearms suppressor, 30 .22 caliber cartridges, 47 .45 caliber cartridges, seven .32 caliber cartridges, 80 9mm cartridges, and seven 12 gauge shotgun cartridges.
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