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Gunmen throw grenade at Mexican TV news station
07 Jan 2009 03:36:08 GMT
 Source: Reuters
MONTERREY, Mexico, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Gunmen threw a grenade and opened fire outside a news television station during its evening broadcast in Mexico on Tuesday and left a message warning journalists from reporting on drug war violence.

Gunmen hurled the grenade at the regional studios of Mexico's top broadcaster Grupo Televisa in the northern city of Monterrey during the evening news show, the station's reporters said live on the air.

No one was hurt in the attack, in which the gunmen sprayed one of the station's outside doors with bullets.

Gunmen also left a handwritten message on a car bumper near the studio that read: "Stop reporting just on us. Report on the narco's political leaders," in a apparent reference to the Mexican government.

Mexico is facing spiraling violence between warring drug gangs and the army in a battle that killed some 5,700 people last year.

Attacks on the media have mounted since President Felipe Calderon launched his military assault on cartels at the end of 2006. Suspected drug hitmen shot dead a crime reporter in the border city of Ciudad Juarez in November.

Monterrey, a prosperous manufacturing and services city close to the U.S. border, was mainly calm in the drug war last year, but the powerful Gulf cartel and its feared Zeta hitmen run drugs through the area to Texas.

In October, gunmen shot at the U.S. consulate in Monterrey and threw a grenade that did not explode. (Reporting by Robin Emmott)


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