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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 20011

Shooting in Mexico kills 18


A dreadful shooting
between two
conflicting gangs,
ends the lives of 18
people in North-
eastern Mexico. On
the morning of
March 7th, 2011,
the town of Abasolo
in the state of
Tamaulipas was
terrorized by a turf
war between the
two major Mexican
drug gangs- the Gangs roaming the streets of Abasolo
Zetas and Gulf
cartels. Last month,
there had already to arrive, therefore community, but no
been a slaughter in a civilians have found further details about
nearby town called Twitter to be an the turf wars have
Padilla in which 18 exceedingly useful been released. There
people were killed alternative. It has have been public
mostly innocent been confirmed that warnings about the
bystanders. It has the state and federal gang wars sent to the
been difficult security forces have civilians of
communicating been sent into the Tamaulipas but for ARTICLE WRITTEN BY
ERIN MCCRAE
events to other cities town of Abasolo to the most part media  

in Tamaulipas as the investigate the has tried to avoid the GRADE 10 FUTURE
FORUMS STUDENT AT
information takes shooting and restore whole situation JACOB HESPELER

hours or sometimes order to the SECONDARY SCHOOL


 
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/03/08/mexico-drug-gang-shootout.html

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