EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – At least seven civilians were killed in separate roadside mass shootings in the border state of Sonora, Mexico, in the past two days.
The Sonora Attorney General’s Office confirmed 11 people were shot Sunday inside a vehicle transporting farmworkers from a field called Campo San Francisco to the city of Caborca, Sonora. State authorities are investigating “the circumstances in which four people were killed and seven others wounded.”
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Mexican news reports citing witnesses and police officers on the scene said the deceased included three minors and a 30-year-old woman. The reports also say the occupants of the targeted truck — which was carrying 29 laborers — yelled out to their assailants they were farm workers and the attack, an apparent case of mistaken identity, stopped.
The reports state Caborca is a hotbed of drug-related activity due to its proximity to the U.S. border. Caborca is about a two-hour drive southwest of Nogales, Arizona.