The World : 6 Die in Mexico Drug Raid
Five alleged drug traffickers and a Mexican policeman died when Mexican narcotics agents raided a ranch where they believed a kidnaped U.S. drug agent was being held near Guadalajara, police said in Mexico City. Federal police engaged in a shootout with the suspects during a search for U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena, who was abducted Feb. 7 in Guadalajara. But Camarena was not found in the raid. Jose Manuel Esquivel Jiminez, a Mexican federal narcotics agent, was killed in the hourlong exchange, sustaining 13 rifle wounds.
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