Town held hostage by hitmen loyal to El Chapo's sons as two killed in 24 hours of horror
dailystar.co.ukdrug lord El Chapo that left two people dead and many more kidnapped. Word of the drug gangs raid on February 15 had initially been passed to residents of the isolated city through scrambled messages from truck drivers who heard gang members at gas stations brag: "The Chapiza is here: we are coming with everything."Armed to the teeth with guns powerful enough to take down helicopters, 20 trucks arrived in Caborca to intimidate the rival gangs in the area and lay siege to the town.
Remarkably, nothing was done to stop the convoy of cars entering the town and residents were forced to bombard themselves in their homes and wait out the violence.
Speaking to El Pais, one woman said: "There was not a single authority that went out to confront them, they all hid. They abandoned us."When the convoy arrived, the violence began.
Armed men roamed through the town and searched houses for enemies before executing two men in the street. Other residents were kidnapped and many people taken that night are still missing.
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