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Twelve shot and killed in Mexico gang violence
Jul 11, 2008, 4:12 GMT
Mexico City - Suspected gang members killed nine people at an auto repair shop and three police investigators were shot dead near police headquarters in the northern Mexican city of Culiacan, local media reported Thursday.
Nine people were shot inside and just outside the auto body shop, though none of the bodies have been identified and no arrests have been announced, La Jornada newspaper reported.
Three state police officers were shot near Culiacan's police headquarters.
Culiacan is the capital of northern Sinaloa state and home to the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel and the site of an ongoing wave of drug-related violence that has killed up to 900 people in the state this year.
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