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28 dead, 700 flee as gang battles hit west Mexico (AP)

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A police officer escorts Julio de Jesus Radilla Hernandez, aka 'El Negro' as he is presented to the press at the federal police headquarters in Mexico City,Wednesday, May 25, 2011.  Mexico's federal police said Radilla Hernandez is allegedly responsible for ordering the March 27 murder of Juan Francisco Sicilia, son of Mexican poet Javier Sicilia and six other people. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

AP - Fierce fighting among apparent rival drug gangs in western Mexico bloodied one highway with 28 dead, while in a nearby state more than 700 people huddled in shelters after fleeing villages that had become battlegrounds.




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