Mexico: 18 dead after shootout between rival drug cartels
By DW
28 June 2021 |
2:38 pm
The bullet-ridden bodies of the cartel members were discovered in the north-central state of Zacatecas. Earlier this week, two missing police officers were found hanging from a bridge in the same area.
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