2 cars explode in Mexico where 72 bodies found

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2 cars explode in Mexico where 72 bodies found

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, Associated Press Writer E. Castillo, Associated

Press Writer – 33 mins ago

SAN FERNANDO, Mexico – Two cars exploded early Friday in a northern state where

officials are investigating the killing of 72 Central and South American

migrants, while a prosecutor investigating the massacre has disappeared.

The prosecutor, o Suarez, disappeared Wednesday in the town of San

, where the bodies of the migrants were found, the Tamaulipas state

attorney general's office said in a statement. A transit police officer in the

town is also missing.

President Felipe Calderon, speaking during a forum on security, said Suarez, a

Tamaulipas state prosecutor, was involved in the initial investigation of the

massacre, which authorities have blamed on the Zetas drug cartel. The federal

Attorney General's Office has since taken the lead in the case.

The two car explosions happened less than 45 minutes apart in Ciudad ,

the Tamulipas state capital, the Attorney General's Office said. The first

exploded in front of the offices of the Televisa network and the second in front

of transit-police offices.

There were no injuries, though both caused some damage to buildings and knocked

out the signal of the Televisa network for several hours. The explosion outside

Televisa was felt for several blocks.

The network described the explosion as a car bomb, but the state attorney

general's office said the cause of the explosions have not been determined.

If confirmed, it would mean a total of four car bombs in Mexico this year — a

new and frightening tactic in the country's escalating drug war.

The first exploded July 5 in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, across

the border from El Paso, Texas, killing a federal police officer and two other

people. The second, which caused no injuries, happened just two weeks ago in

front of police headquarters in Ciudad .

Just north of Ciudad , heavily guarded investigators working at a

private funeral home in San identified 31 of the 72 massacred migrants,

whose bodies were discovered on a ranch Tuesday, bound, blindfolded and slumped

against a wall.

Those identified include 14 Hondurans, 12 Salvadorans, four Guatemalans and one

Brazilian, the state attorney general's office said.