‘Drug gang’ clash kills 21 near Mexico-US border

AFP
July 2, 2010

A clash between suspected members of rival drug gangs left 21 people dead on Thursday in a rural area of the Mexican state of Sonora, very close to the US border, Mexican justice officials said.

The clash involved “two groups of suspected drug traffickers and undocumented” migrants, the Sonora attorney general’s office said in a statement.

The fighting took place some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the US border.

Police later detained nine people in the area, including six with bullet wounds, the statement said.

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