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| Mexican officials fail to identify dead man as leader of Zetas cartel | Mexican officials fail to identify dead man as leader of Zetas cartel |
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| Neither the marines who killed him nor the forensic team who took his fingerprints had any idea the dead criminal was in fact the notorious drug trafficker Heriberto Lazcano until after his body went missing, according to Mexican authorities. | Neither the marines who killed him nor the forensic team who took his fingerprints had any idea the dead criminal was in fact the notorious drug trafficker Heriberto Lazcano until after his body went missing, according to Mexican authorities. |
| "We had no indication it was El Lazca," said navy spokesman, José Luis Vergara, using a common nickname for the leader of the bloody Zetas cartel. | "We had no indication it was El Lazca," said navy spokesman, José Luis Vergara, using a common nickname for the leader of the bloody Zetas cartel. |
| He and another man were shot after a car chase by a navy patrol called to a report of armed men at a baseball game in the state of Coahuila on Sunday. The bodies were taken to a funeral parlour that serves as a temporary morgue. Less than an hour later, armed masked men took the cadavers away. | He and another man were shot after a car chase by a navy patrol called to a report of armed men at a baseball game in the state of Coahuila on Sunday. The bodies were taken to a funeral parlour that serves as a temporary morgue. Less than an hour later, armed masked men took the cadavers away. |
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