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Gunmen kill 3 illegal immigrants in Ariz
TUCSON, Ariz. – Gunmen stopped a pickup truck full of illegal immigrants, shot several and took the rest captive Thursday in an attack that left at least three men dead and two people wounded, authorities said.
Authorities were trying to determine who the gunmen were.
The men shot three people, one fatally, along a known smuggling corridor near Tucson, then forced the six or seven other immigrants in the group to leave with them, Pima County sheriff’s officials said.
The bodies of two of those immigrants were found a few miles north in the cab of the pickup truck that had been carrying the group. The other four or five immigrants had not been found by midday Thursday.
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Thursday morning’s attack occurred on a dirt road near the Silverbell Mine, about 20 miles northwest of Tucson, said Rick Kastigar, the Pima County sheriff’s criminal investigations chief.
Kastigar said the immigrants were heading north when four men armed with assault rifles in another vehicle forced the truck to stop. During a confrontation, one man was killed, another was shot in the hand — losing several fingers — and a woman was shot in the neck, Kastigar said.
Aerial Photo’s of Beautiful Tucson, Az
Hi ManEe, just wanted to see what area we’re talking about near Silverbell Mine. From the report: :”… a known smuggling corridor near Tucson” (20mi NW) ?
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A new link to updated article in Arizona Daily Star
In NY Times with photo of van found with a migrant shot to death.
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A body lay in the bed of a pickup in the
desert near Silverbell Mine, Tucson
(AE Araiza/Arizona Daily Star)
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