Hundreds flee drug cartel turf battles in rural western Mexico

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Gun battles between drug cartels forced about 700 people to flee their rural villages in the western Mexico state of Michoacan, activists and a local priest said Friday.

Rev. Jorge Armando Vazquez said dozens of people are sleeping in the nave of a parish church in the hamlet of El Rosario, on the outskirts of the city of Apatzingan. Hundreds of others are sheltering with local families, after hours-long gun battles chased them from their homes Tuesday.

Residents fled from several farm hamlets along Michoacan's Rio Grande, after bullets hit their homes. The violence is the result of a long-running war between the Jalisco drug cartel and local gangs for control of the area. But the fighting had not previously reached so close to Apatzingan, a regional center for the area's limes, cattle and other products.

 

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