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At Least 53 Killed in Mexico Casino.
On Aug 26, 2:40*am, "Viktor Slovak"
wrote: MEXICO CITY—In what Mexican officials have called an "act of terror," a half dozen gunmen burst into a casino in Mexico's industrial capital of Monterrey Thursday, sprayed the place with gasoline, and started a fire in the bingo section, killing at least 53 people. Speaking to Monterrey's leading newspaper El Norte, Nuevo León Gov. Rodrigo Medina said that at least 53 people had been killed in the attack, making it the bloodiest attack suffered by this prosperous city, which has been rocked by spiraling drug violence in the last year. Monterrey is the capital of Nuevo León state. Officials said they expected the death toll to continue to climb in what appeared to be an attack linked to warring drug cartels, although there was no immediate information linking the massacre to drug traffickers. Up to 80 people were in the casino when it was attacked. "Six hooded gunmen came in, shouting obscenities and firing their guns," said a person at the scene who asked not to be named. "They drenched the place with gasoline. People were running as the place went up in flames. Those who stayed behind burned to death." Videos of the Casino Royale by local news channels showed a grim scene of rescue workers dragging bodies out by their feet as billowing clouds of black smoke came out of the building. One fireman appeared to be attempting rescues from a crane. The entrance to the casino was charred black and a sign reading "Royale" stood beside it. In a message on his Twitter account, President Felipe Calderón condemned the mass killing. "With profound consternation I express my solidarity with Nuevo León and the victims of this aberrant act of terror and barbarity," Mr. Calderón wrote. "An act of terrorism has been committed," said Alejandro Poiré, the federal government's spokesman for security affairs. "This act of terror will not remain unpunished." The mention of "terror" has been a controversial one in Mexico's drug wars, where officials have argued hard against terminology suggesting an insurgency. In 2008, many feared that drug traffickers would resort to conventional terrorist methods after grenades were thrown into crowd gathered for Mexican Independence Day, killing eight and wounding 131. Since then, however, drug cartels have typically shied away from large-scale attacks on the public. Until recently, Monterrey was one of the safest cities in Latin America. But since last year, the city has become a battleground for two of Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking organizations, the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, who are fighting for control of lucrative local drug markets and drug routes to the U.S. El Norte newspaper quoted Jorge Camacho, the state's head of civil defense, as saying rescue workers had found various bodies in the casino's bathrooms where the victims had run for shelter. Mr. Camacho said rescue workers were still searching for missing victims, and the toll was expected to rise. The massacre in the Casino Royale in an upper middle class area of the city was the second such attack on an entertainment center in the last two months in Monterrey. The attack on the casino, located on one of Monterrey's main avenues, took place at about 3:30 p.m. when six men drove up in two cars, officials said. In July, gunmen attacked a Monterrey bar with a reputation as a drug distribution center, killing 21 people, most of them bar workers. So far this year, more than 1,000 people have died in drug-related violence in the state of Nuevo León. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...75404576531150 085042280.html Well, it's a small begining! (can you picture those old farts scrambling) |
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