Mexico sees two more possible car bomb attacks

Calcutta News.Net
Saturday 28th August, 2010

A major television network in Mexico reported early Friday that two cars had exploded outside the station’s offices in a northern state where a massacre is already believed to have taken place.

The Televisa network described the two explosions, which also appeared to target an adjacent police station, as car bombs, although an official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the type of explosion could not yet be confirmed.

The explosions occurred in Ciudad Victoria, the regional capital of Tamaulipas, a state in Mexico renowned for gangs and drugs.

Within minutes of the blasts the scene had been sealed by security forces. The explosions caused some localized damage but no injuries.

The state of Tamaulipas already made headlines recently when officials announced that they were trying to indentify 72 bodies found massacred near the US border. The bodies are believed to be those of migrants trying to reach Texas.

It is believed that a forced recruitment by a local drug gang was undertaken and turned ugly, resulting in the worst drug-related mass killing ever reported in Mexico.

A security spokesman for the government has said the migrants were apparently killed for refusing to smuggle drugs across the border into the United States.

The explosions and massacre seem to suggest a chilling escalation in Mexico’s drug war.

If confirmed as car bombs, the two blasts in the state capital would be the third and fourth so far of a concerning new tactic employed by drug gangs in the country.

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