http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/news/article3540999.ece
From Times Online
March 12, 2008
“Britons robbed at gunpoint in Ecuador
Masked gang armed with guns and machetes tie up, rob and terrorise nine Britons in an Andean village”
SNIPPET: “Story update: Ecuador security crackdown after nine Britons robbed at gunpoint”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Nine Britons were held at gunpoint and robbed in a terrifying 45-minute ordeal on the first night of a trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.
Armed with guns, knives and machetes, a masked gang burst in on the group as they sat down for dinner in their hotel in a small village on Monday night.
The gang tied up the nine Britons, two Canadians and a Greek in the party, and held knives to their throats and guns to the temples in a 45-minute ordeal. The guests were stripped of rings, passports, bags and cameras before the gang took their room keys.
But one of the staff at the Mindo Gardens Lodge managed to escape and the gang fled before ransacking the rooms. The armed robbers got away with an estimated US$20,000 worth of possessions and cash in the attack in El Mindo, 84km outside the capital, Quito.”
VICTIMS - BODY COUNT UPDATE:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,338228,00.html
(AP)
“Mexican Cops Find 36 Bodies in Border City Backyard”
Saturday, March 15, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials said Saturday that 36 bodies were found buried in the backyard of a house in a city across the border from El Paso, Texas, and they believe that number represents the final tally.
Mexican federal agents began digging behind a Ciudad Juarez house allegedly used by the Juarez drug cartal two weeks ago after receiving an anonymous tip, officials said.
In the raid, investigators found 3,740 pounds of marijuana in the house.”