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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2007 
Mexican Official: Killings Apparently Linked with Recent Cocaine Seizure at Airport
 E. Eduardo Castillo - Associated Press
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Mexico City – Five killings in the Mexico City area are the consequence a major drug bust at the capital's international airport, a law enforcement official close to the case told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
An official at the federal attorney general's office who was not authorized to be quoted by name said the killings were related to the seizure of a half-ton of cocaine at the airport. The official did not elaborate.
Authorities found the bodies over the past week. The heads of two victims were found in Mexico City and their bodies in neighboring Mexico state, Octavio Campos, spokesman for the Mexico state attorney general's office, told The Associated Press.
The federal Attorney General's Office announced the cocaine seizure on Sunday, but did not say what day it occurred. The cocaine arrived from Colombia in 500 packets.
Meanwhile, two army lieutenants and a deputy army lieutenant were shot to death on Tuesday while Christmas shopping in the northern state of Coahuila, Mexico's defense department said.
An Air Force lieutenant who was with the men was wounded and taken to a hospital where he was in serious condition, the department said in a news release. No arrests were made, and the motive in the killings was not clear.
Associated Press writer Lisa J. Adams in Mexico City contributed to this report. |
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