Criminal gangs kill 11 in Mexico's Veracruz state

Record ID: 897065

  • Title: Criminal gangs kill 11 in Mexico's Veracruz state
  • Date: 26th June 2017
  • Summary: XALAPA, VERACRUZ, MEXICO (JUNE 25, 2017) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) VERACRUZ GOVERNOR MIGUEL ANGEL YUNES, SAYING: "Organised criminals want to inhibit the action by the state and want to inhibit by threatening those of us in charge of fighting against them and not only that but by passing to action, by killing one of the most important officers of this group." COATZACOALCOS, VERACRUZ, MEXICO (JUNE 25, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF FUNERAL HOME IN COATZACOALCOS WHERE MURDERED FAMILY WERE TAKEN TO AND RELATIVES ENTERING FUNERAL HOME (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) RELATIVE OF VICTIMS, JESUS, SAYING: "The facts speak for themselves. You already saw how the family is devastated, because it was not one, but six. Including in those six, four innocents, who have nothing to do with anything. They are innocent and they did not have a long life but it was cut short and taken away from them. It's devastating for the family and not only for the family but for the people of Veracruz." EXTERIOR FUNERAL HOME
  • Embargoed: 10th July 2017 21:03
  • Keywords: Crime 11 people Veracruz Zetas Jalisco New Generation drugs Cardel Coatzacoalcos
  • Location: COATZACOALCOS / CARDEL / XALAPA, VERACRUZ, MEXICO / UNKNOWN LOCATION IN MEXICO
  • City: COATZACOALCOS / CARDEL / XALAPA, VERACRUZ, MEXICO / UNKNOWN LOCATION IN MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA0066MX16IR
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Eleven people were killed in Mexico's Veracruz state by criminal gangs on Saturday (June 24), including four children and the head of the state's federal police and two other federal police officers, Governor Miguel Angel Yunes said.
    Veracruz is home to rival drug cartels including the Zetas and Jalisco New Generation, or CJNG, which are fighting over drug trafficking turf.
    Armed gunmen shot and killed the three police officers, including the head of the federal police in Veracruz, Camilo Juan Castagne, at a restaurant in the city of Cardel.
    In the port city of Coatzacoalcos, two adults and four children were killed, while two women were killed in the city of Orizaba.
    Governor Miguel Angel Yunes said the murders could "give a dimension of the brutality, the savagery by this group of individuals who want to seize control of Veracruz."
    Authorities are offering up to one million pesos ($55,917.82 dollars) for the capture of the alleged murderers, who are still at large.
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