| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2008 
3 Arrested in Morelia Grenade Attack
 Elisabeth Malkin - New York Times
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| | Members of a group of hitmen called the 'Zetas' are shown to the press at the General Attorney's office in Mexico City, on September 26. The three gangsters confessed that they are the authors of a grenade attack that killed eight people during the celebration of Independence Day in Morelia, western Mexico. (AFP) | | |
Mexican authorities said Friday that they had arrested three men who were accused of throwing grenades into a crowd that was celebrating Mexico’s Independence Day in the western city of Morelia.
Eight people died and more than 100 were wounded.
The men, Julio César Mondragón Mendoza, Juan Carlos Castro Galeana and Alfredo Rosas Elicea, confessed to throwing the grenades during the celebration on Sept. 15, the authorities said.
They were members of the Zetas, a paramilitary group linked to the drug trafficking Gulf Cartel, according to investigators.
The men were arrested in the western town of Apatzingán after the police received an anonymous tip. |
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