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DATE=9/17/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-238845
TITLE=MEXICO MASSACRE (L)
BYLINE=GREG FLAKUS
DATELINE=MEXICO CITY
CONTENT=
VOICED AT: 
INTRO:   AT LEAST 18 PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND TWO WOUNDED NEAR THE 
MEXICAN CITY OF ENSENADA.  THEY WERE APPARENTLY VICTIMS OF AN 
EXECUTION-STYLE KILLING THAT MAY BE LINKED TO DRUG TRAFFICKING.  
V-O-A'S GREG FLAKUS HAS MORE FROM OUR BUREAU IN MEXICO CITY.
TEXT:    THE KILLERS CAME IN THE EARLY HOURS OF MORNING BEFORE 
DAYLIGHT.  THEY LINED UP THE VICTIMS, INCLUDING A BABY IN 
DIAPERS, AND SHOT THEM DOWN IN COLD BLOOD.
TELEVISION IMAGES, TAKEN JUST AFTER DAYBREAK AND BEFORE 
AUTHORITIES CLOSED THE SCENE TO REPORTERS, SHOWED A LINE OF 
BODIES AND BLOOD-SOAKED GROUND.  THE GROUND WAS ALSO STREWN WITH 
SPENT CARTRIDGES, MOST OF WHICH WERE FROM AN A-K-47 ASSAULT 
RIFLE, ACCORDING TO REPORTERS ON THE SCENE.
GUARDING THE CRIME SCENE AND CARRYING OUT THE INVESTIGATION ARE 
AGENTS FROM THE LOCAL POLICE, STATE POLICE AND FEDERAL POLICE AS 
WELL AS ARMY SOLDIERS.  TIJUANA PROSECUTOR MARCO ANTONIO DE LA 
FUENTE TOLD REPORTERS THAT NOTHING CONCRETE HAD BEEN DETERMINED 
YET.
              ///  DE LA FUENTE ACT  (SPANISH) ///
MR DE LA FUENTE SAID THERE WERE ABOUT SEVEN CHILDREN AMONG THE 
DEAD AND THE REST WERE ADULTS.  HE SAID THE FAMILIES TARGETTED BY
THE ASSASINS WERE FARMERS IN THE VALLEY NEAR ENSENADA WHERE THE 
KILLING TOOK PLACE.  IN NEARBY CORRALS, HORSES SAUNTERED AS 
POLICE INVESTIGATORS SEARCHED FOR CLUES.
MEXICAN TELEVISION STATIONS ARE REPORTING POSSIBLE DRUG 
TRAFFICKING LINKS TO THE HEAD OF ONE OF THE MURDERED FAMILIES, 
35-YEAR-OLD FERNANDO CASTRO, WHO SURVIVED THE SHOOTING AND WAS 
TAKEN TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL. 
                         ///REST OPT/// 
 POLICE SOURCES, QUOTED BY MEXICAN MEDIA, SAY THE NOTORIOUS 
ARELLANO-FELIX DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION MAY HAVE BEEN 
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MASSACRE.  THE AGRICULTURAL ZONE WHERE THE 
CRIME TOOK PLACE HAS BEEN USED FOR MARIJUANA PRODUCTION AND AS A 
TRANS-SHIPMENT POINT FOR DRUGS SMUGGLED NORTH FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
(SIGNED).
NEB/GF/WDC/WFR
17-Sep-98 6:33 PM EDT (2233 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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