Fumes Kill 2 Officers During Drug Search
<i> Reuters</i>
MEXICO CITY —
Two Mexican highway patrolmen died from gas poisoning while searching for marijuana hidden in a tank truck carrying butane gas, the state news agency Notimex reported Friday.
It said the two police agents intercepted the stolen truck Thursday on the Guayamas-Ciudad Obregon highway in the northern state of Sonora.
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