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Blasts at Mexico cockfight kill four
Assailants threw grenades into a crowded cockfighting ring before dawn Monday in this western Mexican city of Tonala, killing four people and wounding 25 others, investigators said, reported Associated Press. Two people were killed at the scene of the attack and two more died while receiving medical treatment, said Gerardo Octavio Solis, attorney general for Jalisco state. The ring was located at a racetrack in Tonala, located outside Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city. The explosions tossed chairs and sent onlookers fleeing from the scene, which was strewn with blood. Solis said 25 of the more than 100 people who attended the cockfight were injured. Federal and state authorities were investigating and hunting for two attackers. "There wasn't any fighting, we just heard two explosions all of a sudden and everybody left," said Gabriel Alvarez, who returned to the track Monday to recover a truck he left in the rush to escape the blasts. Police were trying to determine if the cockfight had been authorized by city officials. Speaking at a news conference in Guadalajara, the state attorney general refused to comment on reports that the attack targeted Mexico's Milenio drug smuggling cartel, which is believed to be headquartered in the central state of Michoacan. Located about 265 miles northwest of Mexico City, Tonala is popular with tourists who visit its sprawling, open-air markets.
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