Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The war continues

A thousand rounds and grenades?

No wonder they quit.  That's probably more rounds that they have budgeted for a year.


Entire police force in Los Ramones, Mexico quits after gunmen attacks headquarters
By Phillip Caulfield - New York Daily News

The entire police force in a small Mexican town abruptly resigned Tuesday after its new headquarters was viciously attacked by suspected drug cartel gunmen.

All 14 police officers in Los Ramones, a rural town in northern Mexico, fled the force in terror after gunmen fired more than 1,000 bullets and flung six grenades at their headquarters on Monday night.

No one was injured in the attack. Mayor Santos Salinas Garza told local media that the officers resigned because of the incident.

The gunmen’s 20-minute shooting spree destroyed six police vehicles and left the white and orange police station pocked with bullet holes, the Financial Times reported.

The station had been inaugurated just three days earlier.

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