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Army Finds Armored Vehicles Being Made For Drug Cartel

June 07 2011

Mexico

The Mexican army says it has seized a warehouse that was being used to build armored vehicles for an illegal drug cartel, reports the Monitor (Texas).

The warehouse was raided Saturday in Camargo near the U.S. border, said a service release.

The army found two dump trucks that had been heavily armored and modified to carry a squad of gunmen, said the release.

Also captured were two other dump trucks, 23 tractor-trailers, four backhoes, two trailers, seven load-bearing...

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