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10 Die in Shootout in Temosachi, Chihuahua

March 29th 2012   ·   6 Comments

At least 10 suspected drug traffickers died in a shootout in the mountains of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, state prosecutors said.
The shootout happened Monday in Temosachi, a town located about 226 kilometers (140 miles) southwest of Chihuahua city, the state capital, the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office said.

The gunfight started Sunday night and ended in the early morning hours of Monday, said the AG’s office spokesman Carlos Gonzalez.

Some of the “criminals managed to get away” by opening fire on a group of police officers who went to the town after receiving an anonymous tip, Gonzalez said.

Army troops were deployed in the town to “ensure the peace of the residents,” the AG’s office spokesman said.

The 10 bodies were taken to the morgue in Cuauhtemoc, a city about 540 kilometers (335 miles) from Temosachi, for identification, Gonzalez said.

Chihuahua has been one of the states most affected by drug-related violence, accounting for about 25 percent of the nearly 50,000 murders registered in Mexico since 2006.

Chihuahua is home to Ciudad Juarez, which gained the dubious distinction in recent years of being Mexico’s murder capital.

Juarez, located across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, has been the scene in the past few years of a turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels.

Source: EFE

A version of this column originally appeared in www.borderlandbeat.com.

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Readers Comments (6)

  1. Susan Delaware Chavez says:
    March 29, 2012 at 5:04 pm

    Hopefully the right ones died

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  2. Roger W Elliott says:
    March 29, 2012 at 5:21 pm

    Let’s keep it goin`!

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  3. Brenda Wolford says:
    March 29, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    If they don’t won’t to be kill, they need to stop their illegal activities.

    Reply »
  4. Linda Burns says:
    March 29, 2012 at 5:27 pm

    Please America understand our borders need protection!

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  5. Nick Cignetti says:
    March 29, 2012 at 5:37 pm

    Makes those problems a permanent solution!!!!! Next that would like to try????

    Reply »
  6. Ray DiQuarto says:
    March 29, 2012 at 11:59 pm

    Odalay Vatos!

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