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Families of massacred migrants couldn’t pay ransom (AP)

August 28th, 2010

A federal police armored vehicle guards outside a funeral home where some of the 72 bodies of men and women that were allegedly killed by the Zetas drug gang are kept in Reynosa , Mexico, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. A wounded migrant who escaped the Zetas gang stumbled into a military checkpoint and led marines to the scene were migrants from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras were executed. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Their families pleaded with them not to leave, fearful of the growing danger that faces migrants trekking through Mexican territory where brutal drug gangs hold sway.


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