Cancun, Mexico – Grenades were lobbed at the offices of two newspapers in this Caribbean resort city in attacks thought to be the work of organized crime, authorities said Thursday.
The Wednesday-night assaults against the dailies Por Esto and Quequi Quintana Roo came at around 10 p.m., with an interval of about 15 minutes between the bombings.
A 22-year-old injured in one of the blasts was reported to be out of danger.
The representative of the federal attorney general’s office in the state of Quintana Roo, Pedro Ramirez Violante, said his agency is directing the investigation of the grenade attacks based on suspicions that they had been carried out by some criminal band.
“Since these (blasts) are activities of organized crime, obviously they are not common criminals,” he told reporters.
In the wake of the assaults, Gov. Felix Gonzalez Canto announced additional security for the newspapers targeted and the other media outlets in Quintana Roo.
Drug traffickers have been mentioned as suspects in connection with the murders here earlier this summer of high-ranking municipal police officer Wilfredo Flores and Ramirez Volante’s deputy, Sam Rodriguez.
