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Mexican authorities say a bus apparently went out of control after a blowout and turned over, killing 16 people in central Hidalgo state.

State attorney general's spokesman Fernando Hidalgo says the accident happened Sunday afternoon as a group of tourists was returning to Mexico City from a weekend trip to the thermal baths in the town of Santa Maria Amajac.

Hidalgo says witnesses reported that the bus driver lost control when the vehicle blew a tire. The bus hit a guard rail and flipped.

The official says the bus was an old model from the 1970s and in poor condition.

The attorney general's Twitter account says seven men, seven women and two children died. Nineteen people were injured.


Source : Sapa-AP /mm
Date : 27 May 2013 05:59

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The Mexican Thread

A gas tanker truck exploded on a highway in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec killing at least 19 people and injuring three dozen, authorities said today.

The Citizen Safety Department of Mexico State, which surrounds Mexico City, did not rule out the possibility the death toll could rise more as emergency workers continued sifting through the charred remains of vehicles and homes built near the highway on the northern edge of the metropolis.

Residents pitched in to rescue people from the wreckage of crushed and burned cars and shattered homes. Television footage showed plumes of flame shooting out of homes in the pre-dawn darkness.

Authorities did not immediately report a cause for the explosion.

'We just pulled burned people, and put out the fire in the houses, but we don't really know what happened,' said Rogelio Martinez, a resident of the neighborhood where the crash occurred.

Emergency personnel at the scene pulled dead victims from their homes, some apparently burned in their beds. An Associated Press journalist at the scene saw rescue workers take three bodies, covered with white sheets, from one home.

A huge piece of the truck's gas tank was blown 50 yards by the force of the blast, landing atop the wall of a house and cars parked outside. Charred wreckage of cars littered the blast site.

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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-19-people-killed-petrol-tanker-explodes.html
 
Wow, why are there so many stories about 19 people dying or being injured? All 19, 19, 19. The one even had a 19 year old as the suspect.

Spooky!
 
The scary thing is that 19 people seems a lot but in mexico, that is just the normal number for murders in a day or in a single event. They discover buried bodies that are higher than this.

Terrible disaster though but at least it isn't those sick gang drug lords murdering 20+ people.
 
Wow, tanker and bus. Yea even the cartels struggle to get these sort of numbers in one day, scary that a bus accident and gas tanker have to be combined to challenge the murder rate in mexico over a 24 period or in one go.

Pirelli tires i wonder? I assume it was the front tire? Just for interest sake, back tires blowing generally you should be able to maintain some control well i don't know about a bus but i know if you are going to have a blow in a car rear is the safest.
 
The Mexican Thread

Four US airlines canceled dozens of flights to and from Mexico City's international airport on Thursday after the Popocatepetl volcano blew ash and steam skyward, officials said.

American Airlines, US Airways, Delta Airlines and Alaska Airlines "decided not to conduct operations to and from Mexico City," airport spokesman Jorge Andres Gomez told Milenio television.

Another spokesman told AFP that the airlines canceled a total of 47 flights between Mexico and the United States.

The airlines took the precautionary measure even though the airport decided to keep its runways open.

"There is a very thin presence of ash, which does not harm operations or affect equipment. The decision is not questionable, it's within their right," the spokesman said.

Volcanic activity at the snow-capped Popocatepetl, located 65 kilometers southeast of the capital, has intensified since May, prompting authorities to raise the alert level to "yellow phase 3" for 27 days, just short of evacuation orders.

In its latest bulletin, the National Disaster Prevention Center said 12 hours of tremors were felt around the 5,452-meter (17,887-feet) volcano, which had spewed steam, gas and ash in the past 24 hours.


Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 04 Jul 2013 23:29
 
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My brother in law lives right on the side of that volcano, they posted on Facebook this morning that everything is covered in fine ash.
 
Airport officials say at least six U.S. airlines have canceled more than 40 flights into and out of Mexico City and Toluca airports after the Popocatepetl volcano spewed out ash, steam and glowing rocks.

Mexico City airport spokesman Jorge Pineda says U.S. Airways, Delta, United, American and Alaska Airlines canceled 47 flights as a precaution. But he says the airport continues to operate normally and that no ash has reached the area.

At nearby Toluca airport, Spirit Airlines canceled flights from Dallas and Fort Lauderdale.

Toluca airport spokesman Alejandro Munoz says the airport also continues to operate normally.

Authorities registered several tremors Tuesday at the 17,886-foot (5,450-meter) volcano, which has been spraying a fountain of hot rock and ash for the last 24 hours.


Source : Sapa-AP /gm
Date : 04 Jul 2013 21:48
 
Volcano Ash Disrupting Airlines in Mexico again

A handful of US flights were canceled at two Mexican airports on Friday after ash from a nearby volcano fell in central Mexico, authorities said.

Alaska Airlines voluntarily canceled a flight from Los Angeles to Mexico City's international airport and the later trip back to California, airport spokesman Jorge Gomez told AFP. The rest of the airport, however, was operating normally.

The small airport of the central city of Puebla, located just 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the Popocatepetl volcano, decided to suspend its operations due to the volcanic activity.

This forced the cancelation of United Airlines flights to and from Houston, Texas, and an Aeromexico flight to the northern Mexican city of Monterrey as a precaution, Puebla civil protection director Jesus Morales told AFP.

"Although it wasn't a large quantity of ash that fell, the airport decided to follow its safety protocol," Morales said, adding that the small terminal is expected to resume operations later in the day.

Four other flights scheduled to leave Puebla on Friday were being delayed for now, including an American Airlines trip to Dallas, Texas, and three domestic routes operated by Mexican carrier Volaris.

The Popocatepetl volcano has been rumbling periodically since May, spewing huge columns of ash that prompted several US airlines to cancel dozens of flights into and out of Mexico City last week.

Last Saturday, authorities raised the alert level around the volcano to Yellow Phase III, one notch below evacuations of residents who live near the 5,452-meter-high (17,887-foot-high) "Popo," as it is locally known.

The Mexican capital is only 55 kilometers (35 miles) from the snow-capped volcano.

In its latest bulletin, the National Disaster Prevention Center reported that the volcano had spewed steam and ash accompanied by medium intensity explosions early Friday that blew glowing rocks up to two kilometers (1.2 miles) from its crater.


Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 12 Jul 2013 21:30
 
Z-40 Captured alive near US border. Head of sicko ZETA Mexico drug Cartel.

Mexico's most feared and famous drugs baron has been captured driving a pickup truck laden with eight guns and $2million in cash near the US border.

Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, the notoriously cruel leader of the Zetas cartel, is behind some of the largest and most gruesome massacres of a drugs war that has claimed the lives of up to 100,000 people since 2006.

The 40-year-old, whose trademark method of execution was to burn his enemies alive in oil drums, was snared by Mexican Marines yesterday on a dirt road outside the border city of Nuevo Laredo, which has long served as the Zetas' criminal heartland.

The truck was halted by a Marine helicopter and Trevino Morales was taken into custody along with a bodyguard and an accountant, government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said.
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Good riddance.

If you have the stomach for it go to Borderland Beat. But most of the killings have been orchestrated by these sick Fcucs. Nothing is Taboo. These are animals who make our criminals look like tame kittys.

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7 killed, 15 wounded in attack in Western Mexico

Mexican authorities say seven people died after gunmen opened fire on a group of community self-defense members gathered on a plaza in the western state of Michoacan.

Michoacan state prosecutors' spokesman Alejandro Arellano says 15 more people were wounded in the attack Monday.

Arellano says about 300 masked community vigilantes wearing similar T-shirts arrived at city hall in the town of Los Reyes and announced they would take over policing the town.

Minutes later three assailants opened fired on the crowd, killing five members of the self-defense group, a police officer and a passer-by.

Self-defense squads have been forming in recent months in Michoacan and in neighboring Guerrero state by people fed up with extortion and kidnapping by drug cartels and other criminals.


Source : Sapa-AP /dm
Date : 23 Jul 2013 03:44
 
Discovery of Illegal fuel Taps Doubles in Mexico

The discoveries of illegal taps drilled into Mexican oil and gas pipelines to steal fuel have doubled in number during 2013.

Mexico's state-owned oil company says 1,421 illegal fuel taps have been discovered in the first six months of this year, almost twice the 722 taps uncovered in the same period of 2012.

It is one of the few crime-related statistics that has grown under the administration of new President Enrique Pena Nieto, who took office in December.

The illegal fuel taps frequently result in explosions or fires, such as the pipeline explosion Sunday that injured seven people on the outskirts of Mexico City.

The government said Tuesday it is unclear whether more taps are being drilled this year, or whether authorities are just getting better at finding them.


Source : Sapa-AP /mm
Date : 23 Jul 2013 17:54
 
Attacks in Mexico's Michoacan state leave 22 dead: official

Heavily armed men clashed with federal police in six towns in Mexico's Michoacan state, leaving 22 people dead in the bloodletting, the Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday.

"So far, we have two federal police killed, 20 presumed criminals shot dead and another 15 people under arrest," the ministry's National Security Council said in a statement.

In May, Mexico's government promised to keep thousands of troops in the western state until peace is restored to a region that is tormented by violent drug cartels.

Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong held a meeting of the national security team in the state capital Morelia with local officials to discuss a crime wave that led some towns to create vigilante groups.

Officials said some 4,000 army soldiers and marines and 1,000 federal police officers were deployed at that time. Osorio Chong also said the forces would leave once security conditions have improved and the state government can hold its own.

Michoacan was the first state to see troops when former president Felipe Calderon decided to deploy tens of thousands of soldiers across the country to crack down on drug cartels in 2006.

But gang violence surged throughout Mexico, leaving 70,000 people in its wake when Calderon left office in December, and a powerful new cartel, the Knights Templar, emerged in Michoacan.

Osorio Chong has insisted that the strategy ordered by current President Enrique Pena Nieto will be different than his predecessor's, with a single command, close coordination between various authorities, greater use of intelligence assets, and a development program.

Pena Nieto took office in December vowing to switch the focus toward reducing the levels of violence. He has since launched a crime prevention program but he says troops will stay on the ground until the murder rate goes down.

Fed up with crime, vigilante groups have appeared in recent months and clashed with the Knights Templar cartel, notably in the Tierra Caliente region known as a hot spot of gang violence in the state of 4.3 million people.

Drug gangs have existed for decades in this western state, where they grow marijuana and opium poppies and produce synthetic drugs in makeshift labs before shipping them to the United States.


Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 24 Jul 2013 06:06
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6 killed in Gun Attack in Violent Mexican State

Mexican officials say gunmen burst into a home in the western state of Michoacan and opened fire, killing six people and wounding 10.

State prosecutors say the shooting Sunday night in the town of Tuxpan targeted a family that had fled threats from members of organized crime in the state of Mexico.

Officials say at least 47 shots were fired from two high-caliber weapons.

The family had fled the state of Mexico in January for Michoacan, which is one of the most violent states in Mexico and the center of a struggling federal government effort to reassert state control.


Source : Sapa-AP /mjs
Date : 12 Aug 2013 22:25
 
3 dead, 10 injured by Ammonia leak in South Mexico

Three people are dead and 10 others are injured following an ammonia leak in southern Mexico.

The government of the southern state of Oaxaca says the leak occurred after construction machinery operated by a private company hit a pipeline that carries ammonia to a petrochemical plant.

The government says the pipeline rupture Tuesday caused an explosion. The three dead all appear to be construction workers employed on a highway expansion project.

Ten people were injured and 40 others suffered from inhaling ammonia.

About 1,200 people were evacuated from nearby houses.


Source : Sapa-AP /mjs
Date : 21 Aug 2013 06:10
 
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