Gunmen kill marine's family
Published: Wednesday | December 23, 2009
MEXICO CITY (AP):
Gunmen mowed down the family of a Mexican marine just hours after the military honoured him as a national hero for losing his life during a raid that took down powerful drug kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva.
The brazen attack happened shortly before midnight Mon-day at the home of fallen marine, Melquisedet Angulo, in the town of Paraiso in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, police said.
Hit men linked to Beltran Leyva's cartel have a strong presence in the state and are believed to be behind the slayings of Angulo's mother, his two siblings and his aunt, federal officials said yesterday.
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