CRACKERS BLAMED
Mistake By Police (N Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MEXICO CITY, April 19. Police yesterday said they mistook exploding firecrackers for gunfire, and that was why 11 farmers and four policemen were killed in a village celebration that ended in a gun battle. The bloodshed came in the Central Mexico village of Ixmiquilpan, where the Independent Farmers’ Federation, a far-Left group, was having a party on Monday. The farmers claimed the police came to shoot them. But police said they were there only to guard the celebrations. The federation claimed that its members were shot down deliberately by police working for large landowners, opponents of the farmers’ group.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31659, 20 April 1968, Page 13
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