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Police tried to protect the pollsters, but a mob dragged them from the jail, beat them, killed them and then burned their bodies.
Police tried to protect the pollsters, but a mob dragged them from the jail, beat them, killed them and then burned their bodies.
Prosecutors offered no details, including whether the death was accidental.
Modeling agency director Queta Rojas and former congresswoman María Elena Cruz Muñoz died in the attack.
Ten people were injured.
Antonio Zambrano Montes was holding a large rock and drew back his arm as if he was going to throw it when police officers opened fire and killed him.
A convicted felon who had been deported from the United States to Mexico five times, Juan Francisco López Sánchez, is facing murder charges in connection with her death.
5 gunmen entered a bar and went directly for the victims, who included the local boss of the Zetas cartel and a journalist.
Social activists, friends, and relatives of the victims demand the authorities to clarify and punish those responsible.
The government of Colombia identified its citizen as Mile Virginia Martin through the victim's fingerprints. Mile was found dead along with photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and three other women in a Mexico City apartment.
Gunmen killed a police commander in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, and officers pursuing the suspected attackers killed three people about two hours later.