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A woman suspected in the kidnapping and killing of an 8-year-old girl is dragged out of a police vehicle by a mob in Taxco, Mexico, on Thursday. A mob in Taxco beat a woman to death because she was suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, rampaging just hours before the Mexican tourist city’s famous Holy Week procession. “This …
MEXICO CITY — Four bus and taxi drivers were killed Monday following apparently coordinated attacks by gunmen in the city of Chilpancingo, the capital of the southern Pacific coast state of Guerrero. In late January, the tourist town of Taxco endured a days-long strike by private taxi and van drivers who suffered threats from one of several drug gangs fighting …
MEXICO CITY — The bullet-ridden bodies of two detectives were found on the outskirts of Taxco, a colonial town in central Mexico that draws throngs of tourists to its silver workshops, authorities said Wednesday. The grisly discovery came as Taxco endured a days-long strike by private taxi and van drivers who suffered threats from one of several drug gangs fighting …
MEXICO CITY — Unidentified assailants on Tuesday wounded four news photographers in the violence-wracked southern Mexican city of Chilpancingo, authorities said. The press group Reporters Without Borders said the attack occurred just outside the local army barracks, as the photographers were returning from covering an event. The shootings and abductions mark some of the largest mass attacks on reporters in …
MEXICO CITY — Prosecutors said Thursday that three journalists and two of their relatives have been abducted by armed men in a violence-plagued state in Mexico, which press groups say is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, outside of war zones. The online news site The Afternoon Chronicle in the nearby city of Chilpancingo said …
