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Article: Tijuana gang battle rages
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 30, 2008
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- Soldiers held Tijuana's main hospital in a
virtual lockdown Tuesday as doctors treated eight drug traffickers
wounded in running shootouts in this border city.
Even in Mexico's most violent city, jaded residents feel caught
in the crossfire between drug smugglers and federal troops sent in
to stop them. Hospitals, schools, and even taco-and-beer tourism are
suddenly on the front lines of a raging turf war.
The latest bout of violence exploded on Saturday, with rival gang
members killing each other all over Tijuana in simultaneous, pre-
dawn attacks that left at least 13 dead.
Three days later, the Hospital General de Tijuana is surrounded
by camouflaged federal troops with ...
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