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Mexican troops hunt killers of 72 migrants
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 26 - 08 - 2010

Mexican troops fanned out in the remote countryside near the Texas border on Thursday as they hunted the perpetrators of the worst massacre in the country's escalating drug war.
With helicopters overhead, heavily armed patrols in armored personnel carriers, trucks and jeeps swept though towns and cities in the border region a day after the bodies of 72 people were found in an empty building at a remote ranch, Reuters reported.
The victims, believed to be Central and South American migrants, appeared to have been blindfolded and bound before they were lined up against a wall and gunned down.
Photographs showed bloodstained bodies heaped on the ground at the ranch in Tamaulipas state, which has become the scene of some of Mexico's worst drug violence as the Gulf cartel and a spinoff group, the Zetas, fight over smuggling routes.
Officials said investigators were still examining the scene and had not yet removed the bodies.
The sole survivor of the massacre, an unidentified Ecuadorean man, escaped the remote ranch on Monday after being shot and told authorities about the ordeal. He said his fellow victims included Brazilians, Costa Ricans, Hondurans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans.
Migrants trying to slip into the United States from Mexico are increasingly at risk of kidnapping and extortion by drug gangs that operate with near impunity in parts of the country's northern reaches, police and analysts say.
Security forces were fired upon when they approached the ranch on Tuesday, and in the ensuing firefight marines killed three gunmen and arrested another. Several suspects escaped.
More than 28,000 people have died in drug violence since President Felipe Calderon launched his war on the cartels when he took office in late 2006.
Calderon has vowed to push ahead with the crackdown but has warned that more violence is likely ahead.


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