+4:3 Narco criminals set buses on fire in Guadalajara

Описание: (10 Mar 2012)
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1. Wide of burnt bus being prepared to be towed away
2. Mid of the bus
3. Back of the bus and towing vehicle
4. Zoom out of burnt bus
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5. Wide of two soldiers with rifles standing in cover of trees
6. Wide of soldiers standing next to their cars, with rifles
7. Wide of soldier laying down next to a tree, aiming his rifle
8. Wide of helicopter hovering overhead
9. Zoom out from vehicle blocking street to wide of army vehicle
10. Wide of soldiers
11. Tilt up of two soldiers standing with rifles
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12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Emilio Gonzalez, Governor of Jalisco state: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"There were 25 vehicle fires in 16 places, eleven of them in the metropolitan area (of Guadalajara). Said fires caused traffic jams in two places."
13. Pan of burnt bus
14. Wide of bus being towed away, police vehicle following
STORYLINE
Mexican officials said drug criminals set alight 25 vehicles, including city buses and trailers, in 16 different places in the city of Guadalajara, spreading chaos and fear on Friday afternoon throughout Mexico's second largest city.
Emilio Gonzalez, Governor of Jalisco State, said authorities had made some arrests after the arson attacks.
Gunmen boarded city buses and forced the passengers off at gunpoint before dousing the vehicles with petrol and setting them alight, blocking roads.
One man burned to death in one of the incidents, but it was not clear whether he belonged to a gang or was a member of the public.
The incidents, known in Mexico as narcobloqueos (narcoblockades), occurred after a shootout between Mexican soldiers and a drug gang in the neighborhood of Lomas Altas which led to the arrest of two suspects.
The Mexican army said in a statement that soldiers had come under attack during the operation against Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (New Generation), believed to be aligned with Mexico's most wanted fugitive Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
The narcoblockades quickly followed.
Guadalajara has become a new front in the war between the country's two main drug cartels, Sinaloa and the Zetas.
In November, the bodies of 26 young men were found stuffed in two vans and a pickup truck abandoned on a popular expressway.

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