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Owners of Mexican day-care center charged in fire

AP Features 219 days ago

Federal prosecutors in Mexico say they have obtained nine arrest warrants for the owners and legal representatives of a day care center where a fire killed 48 children. The attorney general's office says the suspects, including one health sector official, face charges ...

Nine Mexico cartel suspects held, one dead in clash

AFP Global Edition 228 days ago

Nine suspected members of the powerful Beltran Leyva drug cartel were detained in northwest Mexico after a clash with police in which one other died, the attorney general's office said Friday. Another 12 people died in suspected drug violence in mainly northern ...

Federal prosecutors take over fire probe in Mexico

AP News 229 days ago

Mexican federal investigators take full control of probe into fire that killed 47 children Mexico's government on Wednesday took over the entire investigation into a fire at a day care center that killed 47 children, citing squabbling between state and federal officials ...

Mexico investigators search for 9 in day care fire

AP Features 231 days ago

Investigators on Tuesday were searching for nine officials wanted in a day care fire that killed 47 children in northern Mexico, a day after nine others were arrested on negligent homicide charges. The state officials arrested Monday worked for the Sonora Finance ...

Border crisis heats up

Las Vegas Sun 245 days ago

Mass killings warrant the priority this administration places on ending the drug wars A grisly discovery in a Mexican border town Thursday provided a stark reminder of the ongoing drug wars that have claimed nearly 11,000 lives since December 2006. Mexican police ...

Cooling system behind deadly Mexico daycare blaze: official

AFP Global Edition 246 days ago

A state prosecutor said Monday that a short circuit or overheating of a cooling system in an adjacent warehouse set off a blaze that killed 44 mainly small children in a Mexican daycare center. Abel Murrieta, prosecutor of the northern state of ...

Mexico day care fire kills 38 children

AP Features 247 days ago

Sobbing relatives waited outside a morgue Saturday to claim the bodies from a day-care fire that killed 38 children in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts to evacuate babies and toddlers through the building's only working exit. A father crashed his pickup truck ...

35 children perish in Mexico daycare center blaze

AFP Global Edition 247 days ago

A fire at a daycare center in northern Mexico has killed at least 35 children under the age of two and left dozens of others injured, police and officials said Saturday. Many of the victims from Friday's blaze died from asphyxiation, officials ...

Mexican daycare blaze toll rises to 31: official

AFP Global Edition 248 days ago

At least 31 children have been killed in a fierce fire that raced through a daycare center in the northeastern Mexican state of Sonora, a government official said Saturday. Copyright 2009 AFP Global Edition

27 children die in Mexican daycare blaze: official

AFP Global Edition 248 days ago

At least 27 children were killed when a blaze raced through their daycare center in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora, according to a state government official. "Up to now there are 27" children killed in the fire in the state capital ...

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