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Factory Buses * Mexico - 4 killed as gunmen attack factory buses in Ciudad Juarez
The attack on buses carrying assembly-plant workers near the Texas border. Gunmen jumped aboard looking for a male passenger
Ciudad Juarez,Chihuahua,MEX -Los Angeles Times, by Ken Ellingwood (Reporting from Mexico City) -October 29, 2010: -- Armed men opened fire on buses carrying assembly-plant workers near the Texas border early Thursday, killing four people and wounding 15 others in the latest spasm of violence to rattle Mexico... Authorities in the northern state of Chihuahua said the victims, identified as employees of a U.S. car-upholstery plant called Eagle Ottawa, were riding home about 1 a.m. when three company buses came under fire outside Ciudad Juarez... Officials said they had not determined a motive. Witnesses said gunmen jumped aboard looking for a male passenger... The dead included three women and a man. Two of the wounded remained hospitalized by late afternoon... The so-called Juarez Valley where the converted school buses were attacked has been racked by fighting between powerful drug cartels. But the more than 330 border factories, or maquiladoras, that dominate Ciudad Juarez and surroundings have been left out of the worst of the recent drug violence... Nonetheless, the escalating violence has forced factories and other businesses to boost security in Ciudad Juarez, where foreign manufacturers are drawn by a large workforce, mostly female, willing to work for low wages... Carlos Miranda, president of the Ciudad Juarez Maquiladora Assn., said factory buses have been burned by attackers in extortion attempts... Labels: deadly zones
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