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Tijuana airport shooting

Loboron - 1-31-2008 at 09:43 AM

Truck crashes into Tijuana airport terminal after driver killed by gunmen


By Luis Perez
ASSOCIATED PRESS

7:45 p.m. January 30, 2008

TIJUANA, Mexico – Gunmen chased a pickup truck into Tijuana's international airport on Wednesday, firing at and killing the driver, whose vehicle crashed through the windows of the terminal and came to rest near a security check point.

Two women riding with the victim were wounded and the airport's operations were briefly interrupted, the Baja California state attorney general's office reported. The shooting occurred in the early morning when few people were at the terminal.

The gunmen fired into the pickup as it lay inside the airport lobby to make sure the driver was dead. They fled in another vehicle. Police said the driver had called an emergency number earlier to say he was being chased, but the call cut off. No arrests have been announced.
There was no immediate information on a motive in the attack, but Tijuana has been plagued in recent months by a spate of shootouts and killings of police, apparently involving gangs and drug traffickers.

Also Wednesday, the attorney general's office reported that the unidentified bodies of three men – two of whom had their hands bound and showed signs of torture – were found dumped in a vacant lot in Playas de Rosarito, near Tijuana.

It was the same spot where the bullet-riddled bodies of a Tijuana police official and another man were found in early January.

Local police in Playas de Rosarito, a city of 130,000, were forced to surrender their weapons last month for testing to determine links to any crimes. Armed state and federal agents are patrolling the city.

David K - 1-31-2008 at 09:49 AM

Yesterday?!! Boy, they sure getting things under control... NOT!!:o:no:

DENNIS - 1-31-2008 at 12:34 PM

The only time they have it under control is between incidents. I wonder what kind of info the authorities gleaned from the scumbags they took to DF. Maybe they took them for a session of surfboarding instead of waterboarding. A couple of weeks on Los Muertos beach in Puerto Vallarta would make anybody spill the frijoles.

BAJACAT - 1-31-2008 at 12:36 PM

Sounds to me like a normal day in TJ,


stick them up Nomads!!!

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bajaguy - 1-31-2008 at 12:38 PM

Well, I thought you couldn't have guns in an airport???

DENNIS - 1-31-2008 at 12:40 PM

Some years back, I was in the lobby of the TJ airport at the gift shop and they sold stun-guns. That was before the world fell apart.

capt. mike - 1-31-2008 at 02:11 PM

not to worry..........it was just a couple who were trying to flee me....i insisted they hop aboard for a cruise south and they took one look at me and my bird and fled. :lol::lol:

HotSchott - 2-4-2008 at 07:44 AM

Dark Humor.

I just keep wondering what will happen if this stuff spills over into San Diego on a large scale. The only difference here is I am armed better than most of them. What a shame for Baja to have to endure so much violence. The more people become conditioned to everyday violence, the less likely they will ever get rid of it.