Two men have been shot to death while visiting a graveyard during Mexico's Day of the Dead holiday
Two men were shot to death while visiting a graveyard during Mexico’s Day of the Dead holiday, prosecutors said Friday. The two men were killed, and a third person wounded, in a shooting Thursday at a cemetery in the Mexico City suburb of Naucalpan. Mexicans traditionally visit the tombs of their deceased relatives during the Nov. 1 - 2 holiday. The killers apparently used that tradition to wait for the victims.
This peaceful tradition also was marred by violence in northern Mexico on Wednesday. Police in the northern border state of Sonora were attacked while driving between the towns of Santa Ana and Magdalena de Kino, 56 miles from the Arizona border, authorities said in a post on Facebook. The attackers left three assault rifles, a truck and smears of blood before fleeing to a mountain nearby.
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