Mexico convicts 11 cartel gunmen in killings of 122 bus passengers near US border over 2 years

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.

In Mexico, eleven cartel members were each sentenced to 50 years in prison for murdering 122 people in 2011. The victims, many of them migrants heading to the U.S. border, were taken off the buses they were traveling on in the northwestern state of Tamaulipas. Their bodies were later found in mass graves in the city of San Fernando, the Attorney General's Office reports.

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…

In Mexico, eleven cartel members were convicted of murdering 122 people in 2011. All eleven were sentenced to 50 years in prison. The victims were migrants heading to the U.S. border.

A court in Mexico has convicted 11 men of murdering 122 people. Many of the victims were on their way to the US border in 2011 when they were killed.