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| 13 more dead found near Tampico, Tamaulipas -- UPDATED |
| 2011-12-26 |
| For a map, click here. For a map of Tamaulipas, click here Updating about how the victims died. Thirteen unidentified individuals were found shot to death by a Mexican Army patrol near Tampico, Tamaulipas Christmas Day, according to Mexican news accounts. The victims were found inside an abandoned trailer on a road called the Moralillo-Tampico bypass, just west of Tampico. The army unit was dispatched to the location based on an anonymous tip. Reports say the victims were likely members of a rival criminal group. The victims had all been "double-tapped", meaning they were all shot twice in the chest. The area around Tampico and points south in northern Veracruz have been forming a new battleground between Los Zetas criminal gang and gangsters associated with the Gulf and Sinaloa Cartels, which have merged east coast operations since last summer. Recent Mexican news reports have suggested that newly deployed military units, including Mexican Army and Mexican Naval Infantry units (Marines) in border areas and subsequent counternarcotics operations in the area have forced criminal groups south to fight over revenue generating turf. The new find raises the death toll in the area to 39 individuals in five days since December 21st. To read Rantburg reports on the recent fighting in southern Tamaulipas and northern Veracruz, click here and here |
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