butterbean
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:56 am Post subject: Mexican Drug Gang Dump 5 Human Heads in Bar |
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MEXICO CITY – An armed gang of suspected drug traffickers wearing ski masks threw five human heads onto the dance floor of a bar in western Mexico Wednesday in an apparent revenge killing, prosecutors said.
Wielding hand guns and rifles, some 20 men dressed in black drove up to the Luz y Sombra (Light and Shade) bar in the city of Uruapan, barged into the club and fired shots in the air.
They forced late-night revelers to lie on the floor and pulled the five male heads out of plastic bags, dumping them on the dance floor along with a handwritten message, a spokesman for the Michoacan state prosecutors' office said.
The gruesome attack underscores the challenge facing the next president, Felipe Calderón, in ending drug violence. A court named Calderón, a native of Michoacan, president-elect Tuesday after a contested election in July.
The message said the attack was “divine justice.”
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20060906-0942-crime-mexico.html |
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