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Anthony Suau
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"Culiacan - Mexican Drug War"


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Culiacan, Sinaloa
Mexico
July 4, 2008

During Friday rush hour on main street in Culiacan three people were killed by narco gunmen, one state police commander, a state police officer and a female civilian. Over three hundred rounds on ammunition were fired on the scene. From January 1 to mid-July 2008 there have been 535 drug related killings in Sinolao, many of them were police officers.

Dozens of people look on in terror at the shooting familiar to the American faces at ground zero.

 

 

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