Mexico: brazen daylight shootout turns Guadalajara into war zone
Attack on restaurant targeting former state prosecutor brings war on drugs to one of city's trendiest avenues
Witnesses said the shootout seemed like something straight out of an action movie: heavily armed men swarmed a posh Japanese restaurant, where a former state prosecutor was leaving after a long lunch. Luis Carlos Nijera's bodyguards returned fire and a gun battle ensued on the streets of a trendy neighbourhood in the Mexican city of Guadalajara.
Fifteen people were injured in the attack and subsequent narcobloqueos - roadblocks made by torching buses and other vehicles to hamper police operations - left 15 injured. An eight-month-old baby boy died after suffering severe burns in a bus attack; his mothersuffered burns to 90% of her body.
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