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Mexico death toll rises as drug gangs return fire

By Adam Thomson in Mexico City and Daniel Dombey in,Washington

Published: March 19 2008 02:00 | Last updated: March 19 2008 02:00

On a dusty street in a poor district of Morelia in central Mexico, a group of people mourn a police officer killed by suspected drug-traffickers.

Some hug each other in disbelief. Others just stare at the ground or take it in turns to sip from a family-size bottle of Coca-Cola.

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