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 Editorials | Issues | February 2008 
Mexico Bombing Motive Still Unclear
 PressTV
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Mexican police say the reason behind Friday explosion carried out by an unidentified man near the police headquarters is still unknown.
Police said Saturday that the man, wearing two layers of clothing, died in the blast and that no evidence had yet been found linking him to a guerrilla group or a drug cartel.
One man died and two people were wounded when a bomb exploded Friday on a sidewalk just 300 yards from the capital's police headquarters on Friday afternoon.
Investigators believe the man intended to plant the bomb at the police headquarters, but it went off in his hand.
One theory was that he wore a suit over another change of clothes because he wanted to evade the police after the bombing.
It remained unclear whether a young woman - one of two people wounded in the attack - had been accompanying the man or merely crossed paths with him at the wrong time, the New York Times reported.
The woman, Tania V?zquez, 22, lives in the city's Tepito section, two blocks from the home of Rogelio Mena, suspected of being a member of the Sinaloa drug cartel whom the city police arrested Tuesday, the newspaper El Universal said.
That coincidence led the newspaper to conclude that the bomber had links with the cartel, but city and federal authorities said there was no hard evidence that drug dealers had ordered the bombing. Ms. V?zquez had yet to be interviewed, they noted. |
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