Monday, July 19, 2010

Police Seek Motive in Mexican Attack That Killed 18

MEXICO CITY -- The gunmen pulled up to the party hall, blocked the exits and started shooting at the crowd. The man for whom the party was being thrown was shot dead. So was his brother. Four musicians from the band were killed.

The attack on the party in the northern city of Torreon that killed 18 young people early Sunday morning seemed straight out of Mexico’s organized crime playbook: members of one drug gang killing off their rivals.

But on Monday investigators said that they had yet to link anybody at the party with drug cartels and were still trying to determine a motive for the attack...

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