Soldiers Mistakenly Kill 7 Drug Agents
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MEXICO CITY — Soldiers trying to ambush a drug-smuggling plane from Colombia instead shot to death seven federal anti-drug agents, the attorney general’s office reported.
The office said the drug plane landed Thursday near Tlalixcoyan, about 25 miles south of Veracruz, where troops had taken up positions.
The drug traffickers began a gun battle with the soldiers. Federal agents in a pursuit plane landed behind the drug smugglers. In the confused pre-dawn shooting, seven of the agents were killed.
The smugglers’ Cessna 210 was seized, along with about 800 pounds of cocaine, but the drug runners escaped.
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