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The 2010 San Fernando massacre, also known as the first massacre of San Fernando, [2] was the mass murder of 72 undocumented immigrants by the Los Zetas drug cartel in the village of El Huizachal in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The 72 killed—58 men and 14 women—were mainly from Central and South America, and they ...
By this date only two of the 183 bodies found had been "fully identified" by authorities, and around 120 bodies were sent to Mexico City for identification. [41] Finally, on 7 June 2011, the bodies found in clandestine mass graves in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, stopped at 193 corpses. [42] One US citizen was killed in the ...
The first massacre, known as the 2010 San Fernando massacre, occurred following a gunfight in Tamaulipas between drug cartel gunmen and Mexican authorities, in which three gunmen and a marine were killed. [2] After the authorities patrolled the nearby area, they discovered 72 bodies in a remote ranch in Tamaulipas. [3]
Three others are killed and four injured at a bar in Tulum, Quintana Roo, while four are killed in Salamanca, Guanajuato. [183] [184] 2023 Ciudad Obregón shooting 29 December 2023 Ciudad Obregón, Sonora 8 Eight people are killed and 26 others are injured in a mass shooting at a party in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. The shooting's target, a cartel ...
Two Americans from California are dead after being found shot in a pickup truck in Mexico, officials said. Authorities located Gloria Ambriz, 50, and Rafael Cardona, 53, while responding to a ...
According to Alma Guillermoprieto of The New Yorker magazine, [23] Stefanie Eschenbacher of Reuters news service, [24] and a number of other sources, [25] [26] tens of thousands of people in Mexico have gone missing since 2006, a problem that started with a wave of violence unleashed by the "War on Drugs" declared by President Felipe Calderón and his mobilising of the Mexican armed forces to ...
Some 53 people have been killed and 51 others are missing in Mexico's western Sinaloa state since rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began clashing on Sept 9, local authorities said on Friday ...
Drug-related violence has seen more than 450,000 people killed in Mexico since the government deployed the army to combat trafficking in 2006, according to official figures.