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Two car bombs explode in northern Mexico, no casualties
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August 28, 2010, Saturday
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TWO car bombs exploded in northern Mexico early yesterday, the latest attack in an area where several days earlier marines found the bodies of 72 people gunned down in the country's escalating drug war.
The blasts, the second and third modest bombs planted in a vehicle this month in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the northern Gulf state of Tamaulipas, and the fourth in Mexico since July, caused no casualties but damaged buildings.
The explosions came the same day officials discovered the body of a police officer investigating the massacre of dozens of migrants in another attack by suspected drug hitmen.
"I'm told of the explosion of two car bombs here in the state, one in the offices of local traffic police and the other in the installations of Televisa," Tamaulipas Governor Eugenio Hernandez said, referring to Mexico's top broadcaster.
One of the blasts, apparently part of a campaign to intimidate the media, left little more than the car's engine and front chassis on a street near Televisa's studios in Ciudad Victoria, 220 miles (350 kms) south of the Texas border.
While Televisa gave no details of the blast, car bombs are a new weapon in Mexico's drug war. The vehicle-borne devices detonated so far appear to be relatively unsophisticated.
US police familiar with the investigations said the two bombs yesterday were likely made from commercial explosives and detonated remotely. "I would compare the bombs today with the August 5th bombing in Ciudad Victoria," said the source, referring to the car bomb earlier this month in the city.
Four people were killed in July in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez by a bomb planted in a car, the first such attack since President Felipe Calderon took office.
More than 28,000 people have died in drug violence since Calderon launched his war on drugs in late 2006.
As violence intensified, the US government told staff at its consulate in Monterrey to remove their children from the northern city, which is a business hub with close US ties.
The decision follows an apparent kidnap attempt outside an elite private school attended by children of consulate staff.
Fourteen drug-related slayings were reported yesterday in different locations in the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco, popular with US tourists but also a key transit point for narcotics. The bodies of several of the bound and blindfolded victims bore messages threatening rival cartels.
The blasts, the second and third modest bombs planted in a vehicle this month in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the northern Gulf state of Tamaulipas, and the fourth in Mexico since July, caused no casualties but damaged buildings.
The explosions came the same day officials discovered the body of a police officer investigating the massacre of dozens of migrants in another attack by suspected drug hitmen.
"I'm told of the explosion of two car bombs here in the state, one in the offices of local traffic police and the other in the installations of Televisa," Tamaulipas Governor Eugenio Hernandez said, referring to Mexico's top broadcaster.
One of the blasts, apparently part of a campaign to intimidate the media, left little more than the car's engine and front chassis on a street near Televisa's studios in Ciudad Victoria, 220 miles (350 kms) south of the Texas border.
While Televisa gave no details of the blast, car bombs are a new weapon in Mexico's drug war. The vehicle-borne devices detonated so far appear to be relatively unsophisticated.
US police familiar with the investigations said the two bombs yesterday were likely made from commercial explosives and detonated remotely. "I would compare the bombs today with the August 5th bombing in Ciudad Victoria," said the source, referring to the car bomb earlier this month in the city.
Four people were killed in July in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez by a bomb planted in a car, the first such attack since President Felipe Calderon took office.
More than 28,000 people have died in drug violence since Calderon launched his war on drugs in late 2006.
As violence intensified, the US government told staff at its consulate in Monterrey to remove their children from the northern city, which is a business hub with close US ties.
The decision follows an apparent kidnap attempt outside an elite private school attended by children of consulate staff.
Fourteen drug-related slayings were reported yesterday in different locations in the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco, popular with US tourists but also a key transit point for narcotics. The bodies of several of the bound and blindfolded victims bore messages threatening rival cartels.
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