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Two attacks leave 14 dead in Mexican state of Tamaulipas

Xinhua, July 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

Armed men killed 14 members of two families in two separate attacks early Saturday in Ciudad Victoria, in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, the state government announced.

Herminio Garza, Tamaulipas' Secretary of the Interior, released a video message, saying that the attacks came 45 minutes apart in two homes in the northeast of the city.

The first attack happened around 7:00 a.m. when armed men burst into a house in the neighborhood of Adolfo Lopez Mateos and killed 11 people, including five children, according to Garza.

The second attack happened at 7:45 a.m. in the neighborhood of Revolucion Verde, where one man and two women were killed, while four other people of the same family were injured.

Garza specified that initial investigations had given rise to suspicion that the two attacks were linked to gang rivalry in Ciudad Victoria.

He added that state and federal agents have already begun investigation to find those responsible.

Tamaulipas, on the border with Texas, is facing a rising tide of violence as two cartels, the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, face off for control of the local drug trade. Enditem