Sunday, March 4, 2012

Mexico nabs 3 suspects in journalist kidnappings

Three suspected drug-gang members who allegedly participated in the kidnapping of three television journalists last week were arrested in northern Mexico, federal police announced Thursday.

Elsewhere, a car bomb exploded behind a police barracks in Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas state, damaging two police cars but causing no deaths or injuries, according to state public security chief Jose Ives Soberon Tijerina. It was the second car-bombing in northern Mexico in recent weeks, something that was previously unheard of in Mexico's war on drug cartels.

Soberon did not give a motive for Thursday's bombing, but traffickers claimed responsibility for a July 15 car …

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