Bomb explodes in Mexico City near security ministry office

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

Bomb explodes in Mexico City near security ministry office, kills one: police chief 4:17pm EST

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/

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It's just breaking!

[Parche]

1. This Is The Work Of Al-Kida

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :scared: :scared: :hi:

[robertpaulsen]

2. Al-Koolaid?

What America's 29% drink daily? :)

[Xipe Totec]

4. Al-Cagada n/t

[lunatica]

8. Que chistoso!

:rofl: :rofl:

AlQuela Cagada!

[Xipe Totec]

9. Bienvenida!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[AlphaCentauri]

3. This reminds me Columbia n/t

[Texano78704]

6. The space shuttle?

Or do you mean Colombia?

[AlphaCentauri]

7. sorry Colombia

[sce56]

5. Update Bomb kills one, wounds two in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - A bomb exploded on a street in central Mexico City near the security ministry on Friday, killing one person and wounding two.

No group claimed responsibility for the blast and there was no warning. The Mexican government is locked in a violent battle with drug gangs and has yet to catch left-wing rebels who planted small bombs at oil installations last year.

Police were checking phone warnings that came in after the blast of other possible explosives left in nearby streets, Mexico City police chief Joel Ortega told Reuters.

Hundreds of officers in riot gear blocked roads around the bomb site and evacuated nearby buildings as police helicopters hovered overhead. Windows of buildings and parked cars were blown out and a large advertising awning was destroyed.

"We still have no message nor do we have the identity of these people," Ortega said of the perpetrators. "We are being cautious with the analysis of the materials we found. It is probably gunpowder."

Ortega said the dead man had severe abdominal wounds and his hand was blown off, suggesting he may have been carrying the device when it went off.

A woman was severely burned and a young man wounded in the blast near the ministry building, a couple of blocks from the capital's busy Reforma boulevard and near the bustling Zona Rosa district that is popular with tourists.