Mexicans fear they are all targets now
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‘In the wake of the deadly explosions in the capital of Michoacan state, Mexicans are forced to confront a new kind of victim in the drug wars: anyone,’ writes Ken Ellingwood, in this follow-up report on Monday night’s deadly bombings in Morelia, Mexico, which killed seven people and left more than a hundred injured.
Gloria Alvarez never got to shout ‘Viva Mexico!’ The 32-year-old homemaker, cradling her infant son, jostled with the rest of her family and thousands of other people who packed the center of this colonial-era city Monday night to celebrate Mexican Independence Day. Then came the blasts. Alvarez’s husband and 7-year-old daughter were seriously injured. The 3-month-old baby, Uriel, somehow escaped unharmed, but Alvarez, gravely wounded, died later in a public hospital, reports Ellingwood.
Wednesday, Morelia was returning to a semblance of normal life after the bomb blasts on Monday night. Passers-by stopped to look at a shrine which has been created to the side of the public plaza, where candles and flowers have been laid in memory of the dead.