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| Grenade and bullets fly in Nuevo Laredo newspaper office |
| 2006-02-07 |
Heavily armed gunmen blasted their way into the offices of a newspaper on Mexico's drug-plagued border with the United States on Monday [6 Feb 2006], tossing a grenade at journalists and gravely wounding a reporter...Night shift reporter Jaime Orozco was fighting for his life with five bullet wounds and others were injured by flying glass and debris..Journalists covering drug-related violence on Mexico's northern border are constantly threatened and attacked. Asked whether his newspaper had received death threats prior to the attack, Rosas said: "Not recently." |
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