Mexico convicts 11 cartel gunmen in killings of 122 bus passengers near US border over 2 years
- Mexican prosecutors convicted 11 drug cartel gunmen, sentencing them to 50 years for the 2010-2011 massacre of 122 bus passengers forced to fight to the death.
- The sentences highlight a gruesome chapter in Mexico’s drug war, revealed by discovering numerous bodies in unmarked graves.
- The Zetas cartel abducted male passengers from buses headed to Reynosa and Matamoros, forcing them to fight or die.
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Mexican justice sentenced 11 men, allegedly members of the Zetas cartel, to 50 years in prison for the aggravated murder of 122 people. The case occurred 14 years ago.
For years, the criminal group "Los Zetas" has murdered asylum seekers on their way to the USA and buried them in mass graves. Now eleven members of the cartel have been sentenced to long prison terms in Mexico.
The 11 defendants were allegedly acting on behalf of the Seta gang in Mexico
Crimes occurred in the state of Tamaulipas, on the border with the United States. A judge sentenced 11 men accused of murdering 122 people traveling by bus through Northeastern Mexico to the United States more than a decade ago to 50 years in prison. The information was confirmed by the Attorney General's Office this Wednesday, without clarifying whether there were migrants among the victims. The crimes occurred around 2010, in the border state …
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Mexico convicts 11 cartel gunmen in killings of 122 bus passengers near US border over 2 years - Seymour Tribune
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors finally won convictions — and 50-year prison sentences — Wednesday against 11 drug cartel gunmen for the 2010-2011 massacre of 122 passengers who were pulled off passing buses and forced to fight each other to the death with sledgehammers. The sentences announced Wednesday involved one of the most gruesome […]
Eleven members of a Mexican drug cartel are serving 50 years in prison for the murder of 122 people in 2011. Nearly all of the victims were migrants en route to the United States. They were taken from buses en route to the border by members of the Los Zetas cartel 13 years ago. Their bodies were found in mass graves in San Fernando, in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas. Surviving victims say the migrants were killed because they refused to wo…
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