Posted on 12/20/2013 8:16:48 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
Mexico’s human rights commission said Thursday it launched an investigation into what had been reported as five teenage students who were fatally run down Wednesday by suspected criminals fleeing army soldiers giving chase.
The declaration came the same day that the Tamaulipas attorney general’s office backed off its initial report that the five children — between 13 and 15 years old — were killed as they waited for a school bus along the Reynosa-San Fernando highway early Wednesday afternoon.
Instead, state prosecutors now say that there’s nothing that shows the truck that killed the students was being pursued by army soldiers.
“There isn’t evidence that permits the determination that the delinquents were chased by military personnel, as reported previously,” the state attorney general’s office statement said.
The red 2005 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck was traveling fast, lost control and skidded outside the school, authorities have said.
State prosecutors said they are still looking for the two men apparently spotted when the children were killed and two others — a 31-year-old woman and a 5-year-old girl — suffered minor injuries near secondary school No. 59, also known as Rodolfo Treviño Castillo School, about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Mexico’s defense department said that soldiers went to the scene to provide first aid to those injured and direct traffic, but weren’t chasing any criminals.
Citing local Mexican media reports, the human rights commission said at least four people were hurt as students were leaving to go to a Christmas posada.
The neighborhood where the wreck occurred, La Retama, is on Reynosa’s southern edge, home to rows of small, concrete, nearly identical homes.
The human rights commission said it sent a group of its own inspectors to Reynosa to interview witnesses, relatives of the victims and “give them the attention and guidance they need.”
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Will the Dept of no homeland insecurity grant them green cards and Dem voter registration forms upon US entry?
Mexico’s defense department said that soldiers went to the scene to provide first aid to those injured and direct traffic, but weren’t chasing any criminals.
Yeah, sure.
They are trying even in the US to make chasing criminals out of bounds.
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