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The state prosecutors' office said members of the gang were responsible for killing three state detectives who were investigating kidnappings by the gang, known as "The Bucanans."

Violence surge in the southern tip of the Baja California penninsula in Mexico

The German and his brother in-law were beat and tortured before being shot dead inside the night club early February

Officials are investigating the case as a homicide and robbery

The official said that a helicopter gunship had been called in to provide "dissuasive fire," to suppress outgoing gunfire from the structure on Thursday

Authorities found the decapitated bodies of three municipal police officers on Saturday in a suspected gang-related slaying in southeastern Mexico

Violence against women, kidnapping, gangs and theft are some of the issues faced by Mexican states of Sonora, Tamulipas, Veracruz and Oaxaca

A police official in the northern state of Tamaulipas says the killings in the state capital of Ciudad Victoria appeared related to a dispute over control of street-level drug dealing

There have been reports of threats and extortion demands at the market in the past, but never an attack like this one