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Bodies found after Mexican raid | |
(about 1 hour later) | |
The bodies of six kidnap victims have been recovered from a house in Mexico, following a three-hour shootout between gunmen and soldiers and police. | |
The men had been killed by a shot to the head, a federal agent told a news briefing in the border city of Tijuana. | |
The stand-off began as agents prepared to raid a house that police say was a hideout for the Tijuana drugs cartel, also known as Arellano Felix. | |
It is the latest in a series of drug-related killings in Mexico. | |
Tijuana is the biggest city in Baja California, which was Mexico's most violent state in 2007 with more than 400 murders. | Tijuana is the biggest city in Baja California, which was Mexico's most violent state in 2007 with more than 400 murders. |
President Felipe Calderon sent more than 3,000 soldiers to Tijuana earlier this month, as part of a nationwide crackdown on drug trafficking and gang violence. | |
Arrests | |
During the incident nearby schools were closed down, and local television showed images of police officers carrying out children while gunfire was heard in the background. | |
A spokesman for the federal Public Safety Department, Edgar Millan, said one of the gunmen had been killed and four police officers wounded. | |
Another four gunmen were arrested - one of whom was a state police investigator and another a Tijuana police officer, said Mr Millan. | |
The four men will be flown to Mexico City for questioning. | |
Investigators are trying to determine the identities of the six men found shot dead in the house. |
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