Mexico: 3 Agents' Deaths In Baja Rules 'Suspicious'
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n500/a04.html Newshawk: Terry Liittschwager Pubdate: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 Source: Los Angeles Times (CA) Copyright: 2000 Los Angeles Times Contact: Address: Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, CA 90053 Fax: (213) 237-4712 Website:http://www.latimes.com/ Forum:http://www.latimes.com/home/discuss/ Author: Ken Ellingwood, Mary Beth Sheridan, Times Staff Writers Note: Ellingwood reported from San Diego and Sheridan from Mexico City.
3 AGENTS' DEATHS IN BAJA RULES 'SUSPICIOUS'
SAN DIEGO--Baja California's chief medical examiner Thursday ruled
"suspicious" the deaths of three Mexican drug agents whose battered bodies
were found near a smashed car off a mountain highway between Tijuana and
Mexicali.
Francisco Acuna Campa, head of the state medical examiner's office in
Mexicali, said fatal head wounds shared by all three and other injuries
suggested that the federal agents may have been killed before the car
plunged off a treacherous stretch into a ravine more than 300 feet below
this week.
Acuna said the agents suffered head wounds caused by a blunt object that
"could be a pipe or a bat."