Official: University students, not drug suspects, killed in northern Mexico gunbattle
By APSunday, March 21, 2010
Mexico: Bystanders, not gunmen, killed in shootout
MONTERREY, Mexico — Officials say two men killed in a shootout between soldiers and gunmen outside a prestigious university in northern Mexico are now known to have been graduate students, not suspected drug traffickers.
Nuevo Leon state Attorney General Alejandro Garza y Garza says the victims were studying engineering at the Monterrey Tech University.
Garza y Garza said late Saturday that army officials mistakenly told state prosecutors two suspected gunmen died in Friday’s gunbattle.
Monterrey Tech rector Rafael Rangel said in a news release that both students had scholarships for academic excellence.
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