Mexico Peasants, Police Clash; 14 Die
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COYUCA DE BENITEZ, Mexico — At least 14 people were killed and 19 injured Wednesday in a clash between police and local peasants near this village in Mexico’s southwestern state of Guerrero, officials said.
A local government spokesman said a gunfight broke out after police stopped a truck that was carrying the peasants to a meeting in a nearby village, and one of the peasants attacked a police commander with a machete.
Officials said all the dead appeared to be members of a left-wing peasant group and blamed them for opening fire on the police patrol at a roadblock the police had set up. No other details of the incident were immediately available.
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