At least 16 people killed in Mexican massacres
Pastor Dale Morgan
At least 16 people killed in Mexican massacres*
Reuters
MEXICO CITY - Heavily armed men killed at least 16 people, all members
of a ranchers' association, in two different massacres in southern
Mexico over the weekend, Mexican media said on Sunday.
Some 40 men riding in luxury vehicles and wearing uniforms of an elite
police squad shot nine people dead in the town of Petatlan in the state
of Guerrero on Sunday, El Universal newspaper reported.
And a group toting automatic weapons killed seven people in the town of
Iguala, also in Guerrero, on Saturday.
Reforma newspaper said the ranchers were holding a meeting in Iguala and
at least two of the sons of the association's state leader, Rogaciano
Alba, were killed in Sunday's attack.
Alba himself has survived two other attacks in the past, Reforma said.
The newspapers did not say what could have triggered the attacks but
well-armed drug traffickers are active in Guerrero, a poor, mountainous
state on the Pacific coast home to the Acapulco beach resort.
Clashes over land rights or local politics are also common in Guerrero.