Baton Rouge family trapped in Mexico after cartel kingpin is killed, ‘We are literally running for our lives’

As Mandy Bruns-Apolzan, her husband and her 17-year-old son approached the airport Sunday morning in Puerto Vallarta to leave Mexico and head home to Baton Rouge, they saw thick black smoke rising in the distance.

It was a bus engulfed in flames. It was one of many.

“We had no idea the head of this cartel had been murdered and that there’s these fires all over Puerto Vallarta,” Bruns-Apolzan said…

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