butterbean
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 Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject: Gunmen shoot police chief in Agua Prieta |
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MEXICO CITY - Unidentified assailants shot the secretary of public safety of the city of Agua Prieta, across the border from Douglas, as he left his office on Monday, local media reported.
Ramon Tacho Verdugo, the city's top security official, was taken to a hospital for treatment; the government news agency Notimex quoted police as saying he died of his wounds, while the newspaper El Norte reported he was in serious condition.
Officials in the state of Sonora, where Agua Prieta is located, were not immediately available to confirm those reports.
While drug and immigrant trafficking are not unknown in Agua Prieta, the city has largely escaped the shootouts and executions that other Mexican border cities have suffered in recent years as a result of turf battles between drug gangs.
Police were reportedly searching for the assailants.
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What a wonderful country. I can't wait to have these people move on into OUR COUNTRY. |
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