Mexico's Defense Department confirmed Tuesday that soldiers opened fire on a pickup truck in the violent northern border city of Nuevo Laredo over the weekend, killing five men and wounding a sixth.
The report said three of the bodies were found in the pickup and two on the sidewalk nearby. Such reports usually note any weapons found at a crime scene, but no mention was made of any in this case.
Nuevo Laredo is dominated by the violent Northeast drug cartel, an offshoot of the old Zetas cartel. Soldiers and marines have frequently come under fire from heavily armed cartel gunmen in Nuevo Laredo.and some personnel at the U.S. consulate in Nuevo Laredo. The move came after drug cartel gunmen fired at the U.S. consulate building in the city, which is across the border from Laredo, Texas.
The gunfire came in retaliation for the arrest of drug gang leader Juan Gerardo Treviño, also known as"El Huevo," who U.S. authorities described as a founder and leader of the Northeast Cartel.
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