| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2008 
Ten Suspected Drug Dealers Killed in Mexico Gunbattle
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| | A bullet hole in the windshield of a police patrol car close to where a Mexican policeman was shot dead by assassins in Rosarito, Baja California state, on October 16. Almost 400 people have died in the past two weeks in an intensifying drugs war in Mexico despite a government crackdown on cartels, trafficking and related violence. (AFP/Said Betanzos) | | |
Mexico City - Ten suspected drug dealers have been killed in a gunbattle with police in northern Mexico across the border from Arizona, authorities said.
Four officers were wounded in the battle Thursday in Nogales in the state of Sonora, according to Inspector David Palomares of the federal police. Police said they detained one suspect as he tried to flee.
The fight is the latest episode in an escalating drug war between authorities and narcotics traffickers.
The struggle has spawned widespread drug-related carnage, with more than 3,000 deaths this year alone in Mexico.
Mexican leaders have been trying to staunch the spiraling drug-related violence by tightening controls on money laundering and cracking down on corruption among local and municipal police forces, which drug traffickers allegedly have infiltrated.
The gunbattle happened a week after the U.S. State Department issued a travel warning regarding the growing violence among narcotics rings in the area. |
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