Police have 5 hour shoot out in Tijuana with drug gang
Skimpy article. How many gang members? How many arrested? How many wounded? How many are current or former police?
Mexican police and soldiers traded gunfire with suspected drug gang members on Monday in a five-hour battle near the U.S. border that left a police officer and one of the suspected criminals dead.
The shootout began at a house in a residential neighborhood of Tijuana, a drug smuggling hot spot across the border from San Diego. It started on Sunday night and went on until early Monday, police said.
President Felipe Calderon has sent thousands of troops and federal police to Tijuana and other cities in Baja California, Mexico's most violent state, to fight warring drug cartels and clean up corrupt local police.
Tijuana has recently suffered a spike in violence. Drug gang hitmen broke traditional codes of honor in the city in January by killing children, including a 3-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl.
» Leave a comment
- Your E-mail address is never displayed. If you enter it, it will only be visible to the blog author
- The line and paragraph breaks automatically
