Police in the Mexican Gulf Coast city of Villahermosa rescued at least 23 Honduran undocumented immigrants, including six children, who were kidnapped for ransom after crossing from Guatemala.
In Mexico’s third mass shooting in less than a week, gunmen opened fire at a carwash in Tepic, capital of the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, killing at least 15āincluding 13 workers and two bystanders.
Two unidentified men shot and killed Catarino Torres Pereda, general secretary of the Citizen Defense Committee (Codeci), at the group’s office in Tuxtepec in the southern state of Oaxaca.
At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on a house party in Ciudad JuĆ”rezāthe second such massacre in less than a week in the violence-torn border city.
The severed head of Rolando Flores, a Mexican investigator looking into the disappearance of Texas reporter David Hartley, was delivered to authorities in northern Mexico’s Tamaulipas state.
In the village of AscensiĆ³n, in northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state, some 300 residents beat to death two 17-year-old boys who reportedly had kidnapped a 17-year-old girl.
Ciudad JuƔrez police destroyed a house that had been occupied for 40 years by a family at Lomas de Poleo, a community built on contested lands on the outskirts of the border city.
The mayor of a town outside Monterrey, Nuevo LeĆ³n, was shot to death, while a state police commander in neighboring Tamaulipas was arrested by federal forces.
Mexico’s military announced that four soldiers will be charged with homicide for the killing of two civilians the night of Sept. 5 on the Monterrey-Nuevo Laredo highway in Nuevo LeĆ³n.
An armed commando of some 40 men with assault rifles ambushed a police patrol in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, killing eight and leaving a ninth seriously wounded.
Shootouts in the streets of Matamoros have left at least 25 dead over the past two daysābut local media outlets are too intimidated to even report on the violence.
Bicentennial celebrations were canceled in several municipalities across Mexico for fear of violence, as narco gangs escalate their brutal internecine warfare.
