Mexico drug clash kills 16 ahead of Obama trip

2009/04/16 15:59:31 @Reuters: International News

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Sixteen people died in a shootout in Mexico between soldiers and suspected drug traffickers ahead of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama to discuss the drug war, the defense ministry said on Thursday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=pZBGNhhu7mM:BHg6FwRggqc:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=pZBGNhhu7mM:BHg6FwRggqc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=pZBGNhhu7mM:BHg6FwRggqc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=pZBGNhhu7mM:BHg6FwRggqc:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=pZBGNhhu7mM:BHg6FwRggqc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/pZBGNhhu7mM" height="1" width="1"/
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