Gunmen massacre 16 in Mexico
MOSCOW: At least 16 people were killed in attacks by unknown gunmen in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the General Prosecutor’s Office of the state said on Sunday, reported Sputnik. “The Guanajuato Prosecutor’s Office condemns the events that Sunday morning in the cities of Salvatierra and Salamanca, where 12 and four deaths have been […]
26 killed after bus plunges off cliff in Mexico
MEXICO CITY: At least 26 people were killed and about 20 injured Wednesday after a bus coming from Mexico City plunged off a cliff on a highway in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, local authorities confirmed. The accident occurred in the early morning in the municipality of Magdalena Penasco, when the vehicle veered off […]
Mexican president denounces US politicians’ remarks on migration as “crude, smug politicking”
MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday denounced some US politicians’ statements against Mexican migration as crude, smug politicking, urging the Spanish-speaking population not to vote for “arrogant” US representatives, according to Xinhua. “It is crude, smug politicking to try to deceive US citizens, but it is ineffective; it is not going to […]
7.7 magnitude quake hits Mexico, kills 1
MEXICO CITY: A 7.7 magnitude earthquake shook west-central Mexico on Monday, causing some structural damage on the anniversary of two previous major earthquakes in 1985 and 2017, reported Xinhua. One person was killed when a wall collapsed at a shopping centre in Manzanillo, a beach resort in western Colima state, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez […]
Tropical storm Bonnie becomes hurricane
SAN SALVADOR: Tropical storm Bonnie was upgraded to a category one hurricane yesterday as it swept towards Mexico after killing three people in El Salvador and Nicaragua, the US National Hurricane Centre said. The hurricane, the third of the season off Mexico’s coast, is carrying maximum sustained winds of 125 kilometres per hour with higher […]
Unknown assailants kill Mexican journalist
MEXICO CITY: Unidentified assailants killed Mexican journalist Antonio de la Cruz of the local newspaper Expreso and injured his daughter on the threshold of his home in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the northern state of Tamaulipas, Sputnik reported the newspaper as saying on Wednesday. “This morning, journalist de la Cruz, a reporter for the Expreso […]
Pope mourns priests killed in Mexico
MEXICO CITY: Pope Francis yesterday lamented the spiral of violence engulfing Mexico after two Jesuit priests and a man seeking sanctuary were gunned down inside a church. The pope, himself a Jesuit, expressed sadness and dismay over the killings of men he called his brothers in the mountains of the northern state of Chihuahua. “So […]
