An American messenger was shot by a gunmen in northern Mexico and died soon after her husband raced her back crossways the border into Texas seeking urgent situation treatment, authorities said on Wednesday.
Nancy Shuman Davis, 59, was rushed to a hospital in McAllen, Texas, with a gunshot wound to the head after her husband troop alongside traffic to cross the Pharr International Bridge from Mexico at about 12:25 p.m. local time, police said.
Shuman Davis was prominent dead at the hospital about 90 minutes later, Ruben Villescas, police chief in the near border town of Pharr, said in a declaration. Villescas said the couples were both missionaries who travel at length in Mexico.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico – In another grisly turn in Mexico's drug war, police have recovered 18 bodies from a mass grave announced in a YouTube posting — a video saying the victims were from a tourist group kidnapped in Acapulco a month ago.
Authorities said they would resume their search Thursday for more remains at the burial site in Tres Palos, a town just south of the Pacific resort city.
Police did not yet know if the bodies found were from the 20 men abducted at gunpoint September 30 while visiting Acapulco from neighboring Michoacan state, Fernando Monreal, investigative police chief for Guerrero state, said Wednesday night.
Officers began digging at the site early Wednesday after receiving an anonymous phone call alerting them to 2 bodies dumped on an empty lot.View Full Story
Establishment in Italy has called off the look for for two Americans who went absent during a hot-air balloon race.The look for ended Monday morning and will not resume, said Massimo Maccheroni of the Italian coastal guard. No balloon debris was found during more than four days of penetrating, he said.A balloon transport Richard Abruzzo of New Mexico and Carol Rymer-Davis of Colorado over the Adriatic Sea near Italy made a rapid fall during rough weather, situation that would make their survival "unlikely," race organizer have said."This is very negative information," said a statement from the race association, Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett.Full story
OAXACA, Mexico – A huge mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left only 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca.
Federal Interior Minister Francisco Blake and Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz both confirmed the drastically reduced toll from the slide that hit the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec early Tuesday.
"So far no one is confirmed dead, only 11 missing who we hope ... will be found," Ruiz told The Associated Press.
Initial reports from Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, a rural mountain town 373 miles (600 kilometers) southeast of Mexico City, said a hillside collapsed on hundreds of sleeping residents after several days of heavy rains in the aftermath of a hurricane and tropical storm that hit Mexico and Central America.
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