The Nuevo Laredo Human Rights Committee denounced Army soldiers shot dead six young men returning home in a van after leaving a club.
Civilians attacked Sedena members in Tamaulipas with stones
One of the warned got involved in a discussion with several people and another fired on the ground to dissuade the people present, who according to the first information, would be linked to the Northeast Cartel.
According to the statement, the actions took place in the early hours of February 26 in the neighborhood of Cavazos Lerma in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. As a result one of the young men managed to make it out alive.
“This new slaughter which occurred on this border inflamed hundreds of inhabitants and tens of the relatives of the victims who confronted the soldierseven with beatings, since the victims were unarmed and there was no reason for them to be arbitrarily deprived of life,” the document reads.
After the persecution, the military turned to Fresnillo, Zacatecas; 4 injured and 2 dead
The military elements were attacked while carrying out surveillance rounds, which triggered the persecution
The document also revealed the names of victims, one of them of American origin: the young deceased have been identified as Gustavo Pérez Beriles, Wilberto Mata Estrada, Jonathan Aguilar Sánchez, Gustavo Ángel Suárez Castillo, (American) and Alejandro Trujillo Rocha. the name of another young man Luis Gerardo is in serious condition in a private hospital with at least two gunshot wounds to his body.
According to the statement, the vehicle in which the people were traveling received more than 20 hits and that at least two young men were reportedly finished off in the neck when I was lying on the sidewalk.
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The events occurred on the state borders with Tamaulipas, an area disputed by the Northeast Cartel and the Gulf Cartel.
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