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MONTERREY, Mexico — A shootout between soldiers and purported drug-cartel gunmen killed 25 suspects Thursday in northern Nuevo Leon state, near Mexico’s border with Texas, the military said.
Troops were patrolling in the town of General Trevino around noon when they came under fire from a ranch allegedly controlled by the Zetas drug gang, according to a military spokesman.
They returned fire and invaded the ranch. At least 25 suspected cartel operatives died, but no soldiers were killed or wounded seriously, the spokesman said. Authorities rescued three people believed to be kidnap victims, he added, and seized 20 vehicles and an unspecified quantity of weapons and ammunition.
