THIRTEEN people, including two police, civilians and alleged drug gangsters, have been killed in the latest bloodshed in violence-plagued Mexico, authorities said.

THIRTEEN people, including two police, civilians and alleged drug gangsters, have been killed in the latest bloodshed in violence-plagued Mexico, authorities said.The state security agency said on Thursday two traffic police were gunned down, along with the wife and child of one of the policemen, as they drove through the northeastern border state of Nuevo Leon on Wednesday.Another three people, apparently minors, were killed in a shooting in the state capital Monterrey, and the remainder were shot dead in separate incidents elsewhere in the state.Nearly 35,000 people have been killed in clashes between rival drug gangs and in security operations...

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federal grand jury has indicted three North Texas men who officials say are connected to a gun linked to last month’s slaying of ICE Special Agent Jaime Jorge Zapata in Mexico.

Ranferi Osorio, his brother Otilio Osorio and Kelvin Leon Morrison are named in a six-count indictment handed down Wednesday, The Associated Press reported from Dallas.Each is charged with a single count of conspiracy and four counts of using false statements to a dealer to acquire a firearm. The Osorio brothers are also charged with single counts of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number, according to the AP. They remain in federal custody.Zapata, 32, a native of Brownsville, worked for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was killed last month in Mexico in an attack purportedly by members of the Zetas drug cartel while...

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Shortly before he was gunned down, Cape Town gangland figure Cyril Beeka sipped coffee and chatted about bar stools.

Shortly before he was gunned down, Cape Town gangland figure Cyril Beeka sipped coffee and chatted about bar stools. Beeka and Bosnian businessman Sasa Kovacevic visited the Bellville home of his friend of 12 years, Jerome Booysen."They came at around 4pm. He always came to visit when he was in the area. We chatted like we normally did. Both of us owned properties and would speak about that," said Booysen."We had coffee and I remember saying to him: 'If I don't use these [several bar stools], I'll give it to you.' . He was a good friend."Booysen said Beeka didn't seem uneasy and the two left before 5pm. Kovacevic was driving the BMW X5 they...

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'Underworld boss' killed

Lookalike gangland slayingsUnderworld chiefs both gunned down on Cape roadsThey were both allegedly strong personalities, ruling sections of the underworld and even working together at one stage. Today they are both dead, murdered in an eerily similar fashion.On Monday night, controversial businessman Cyril Beeka's BMW X5 was riddled with bullets on Modderdam Road, in Bellville, Cape Town.In 2007, gunmen opened fire on Yuri Ulianitski, who was driving a luxury vehicle after celebrating his birthday at a restaurant in Milnerton, Cape Town.Ulianitski's widow, Irina Ulianitskaya, said yesterday that she hoped Beeka's murderers would be brought to...

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Australian underworld matriarch was found guilty of orchestrating the execution-style murder of her brother-in-law as he enjoyed his daily coffee at a busy suburban cafe in Melbourne.

An Australian underworld matriarch was found guilty of orchestrating the execution-style murder of her brother-in-law as he enjoyed his daily coffee at a busy suburban cafe in Melbourne.Judy Moran, a 66-year-old grandmother, was convicted over the slaying of Des "Tuppence" Moran who died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head in Melbourne in June 2009, in a case police described as too far-fetched for television.The former underworld enforcer, shot at noon at close range by two gunmen in balaclavas, was from a family that played a key role in a gang war for control of the city's drugs trade that claimed 30 lives between 1995 and 2006.Judy Moran,...

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Gangland: Asian Gangs East London

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