| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2008 
Mexico Kidnappers 'Kill Child With Acid Injection'
 Agence France-Presse
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Mexico City - Kidnappers in Mexico City killed a five-year-old child by acid injection after discovering they were sought by police, local prosecutors say.
Four suspected kidnappers, including a woman and a 17-year-old boy who knew the victim's family, initially sought a $34,000 ransom after kidnapping the child on October 26, the capital's prosecutor's office said.
"When they found out they were sought by police, they decided to take the victim to a hill... where they killed and buried him," a statement said.
The child was killed with an injection of acid, it added.
The suspects were detained at the weekend after a tipoff from a taxi driver who had picked up one of them with the child and later alerted police after seeing a news report on his disappearance.
Official figures show there were 651 kidnappings in Mexico in the first nine months of the year, although experts say the figure could be two or three times higher because many cases go unreported.
Operating theatre horror
Elsewhere in the country, hitmen stormed an operating theatre in a clinic in the border city of Ciudad Juarez to finish off a man who had earlier been shot in the street, local police said.
The 25-year-old patient had been shot overnight on Sunday (local time) near the Red Cross clinic, a police official said.
"When the doctor and nurses were treating him in one of the operating theatres, two masked men carrying heavy weapons arrived and ordered the staff to immediately leave before shooting him three times," the official said.
The Red Cross in violent Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, suspended its activities for one day two months ago due to threats from assassins against patients.
Three men, including a local police chief, died in separate attacks in other towns in the same northern Chihuahua state in the past 24 hours, police said.
Almost 4,000 people have died this year in gangland-style killings across Mexico, particularly in areas where drug traffickers are fighting for control of key routes into the United States. |
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