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GUNMEN DRESSED AS as mariachi musicians killed three people and wounded seven others in a square in downtown Mexico City popular with foreign tourists, police said.
The three assailants carried out the shootings shortly before 10pm local-time last night in the busy Plaza Garibaldi, police said.
Neither the motive for the attack nor the identities of the gunmen were known, but the area is located near the Tepito neighborhood, where a cartel operates that is considered the largest criminal organization in the capital.
Mexico has been hit by a wave of violence since deploying the army to fight the country’s powerful drug cartels in 2006.
Since then, more than 200,000 people have been murdered, including a record 28,702 last year.
Another 37,000 people are reported as missing.
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What did she die of? She died of a Thursday. Lucky to live so long and with no suffering in the end. What a way to go …
Obviously was a very strong lady who was working right to the end and having read a number of very funny stories about the many things that she did and her funny character side she seemed like a very normal lady behind it all
Really who cares.
@Ciaran O Moore: let me be the first to say it….”you care enough to comment” :)
@Ciaran O Moore: a great many people, which is why it’s international news.
@Ciaran O Moore: future historians
@Ciaran O Moore: I think we all prefer a bit of Ciaran O Less
@HarveyLemonade: brilliant!
@Ciaran O Moore: Charles I’d say. He was afraid she’d outlive him.
So what! We kind of worked it out anyway. The English news was extended from 5 o’clock in the evening earlier than normal and a family of human beings had time to grieve for an hour or two before the media went crazy so what!
@Anne Marie Kearney: Sad human response!
I’d say it was the papparazi.
The certificate was signed by Dr F. Obvious.
All i see is that we were robbed of three extra hours of absolute solid hardcore wall-to-wall mourning. I will never forget the Brits for this over anything else. How very dare they.
Would she have known she was going to die?
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