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Eugene

(61,872 posts) Fri Jun 10, 2016, 04:10 PM Jun 2016

11 Family Members Shot to Death in Central Mexico

Source: Associated Press

11 Family Members Shot to Death in Central Mexico

By MARIA VERZA, ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Jun 10, 2016, 3:48 PM ET

Eleven members of a family were found shot to death in central Mexico in what a local official said Friday may have been religiously motivated killings.

The attacks Thursday night targeted a couple, their children and other relatives in the remote hamlet of San Jose el Mirador in the municipality of Coxcatlan, Puebla state.

Coxcatlan Mayor Vicente Lopez de la Vega said the dead include five women, four men and two girls. Two other children were wounded and were being treated at a hospital.

Lopez de la Vega said the hamlet's residents, who are largely evangelical Protestants, had disagreements with a neighboring village that is mostly Roman Catholic.

But he said a rivalry between family groups could have also been the motive.

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11 Family Members Shot to Death in Central Mexico (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2016 OP

"he did not rule out that it could be a family conflict or even a matter of organized crime" struggle4progress Jun 2016 #1

... no motive was currently known for the crime although the family reportedly had earlier clashes struggle4progress Jun 2016 #2

Mexico gunmen attack family, kill 11: officials struggle4progress Jun 2016 #3

struggle4progress

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1. "he did not rule out that it could be a family conflict or even a matter of organized crime"

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Fri Jun 10, 2016, 04:19 PM

Jun 2016

11 murdered in Puebla
AP 12:20 PM Last updated 1:40 PM

struggle4progress

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2. ... no motive was currently known for the crime although the family reportedly had earlier clashes

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jun 10, 2016, 04:24 PM

Jun 2016

with inhabitants of a neighboring community over a difference of religious faith. However, the mayor said no information linked this disagreement to the crime ...

11 members of same family killed in central Mexico
Xinhua | 2016-06-11 03:31:21

struggle4progress

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3. Mexico gunmen attack family, kill 11: officials

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Fri Jun 10, 2016, 04:31 PM

Jun 2016

10th June 2016

... While drug violence is not common in Puebla, some bodies have turned up in recent months.

In April, four bodies were found inside a burnt car near Veracruz, an eastern state beset by murders and disappearances linked to drug cartels. Two of the bodies belonged to sisters of a jailed Zetas drug cartel member, Veracruz authorities said ...

Late last month, four people died when gunmen linked to fuel thefts opened fire in the village of La Purisima, a region where rival gangs seek to control such illegal pipeline taps.

Puebla has also seen a spate of mob lynchings of crime suspects ...

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