11 killed in shootout between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug traffickers

A SHOOTOUT between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug traffickers has left 11 people dead in Tamaulipas state near the U.S. border. Gunmen ambushed a military patrol in the town of Miguel Aleman in an exchange of fire that "killed three soldiers and eight assailants," the defence ministry said in a statement. Another shootout occurred in the nearby city of Reynosa, also bordering the United States, killing one of the attackers, the statement added...more