Eighteen people died on Monday during a shootout between rival armed groups in a locality in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders the United States and shaken by a wave of violence due to drug trafficking, says the regional government on its website. On Monday morning, "a confrontation took place between criminal groups in the Municipality of Abasolo, who has eighteen dead," regional government said in a statement.
The latter did not specify either the identity of the dead nor the names of groups who have clashed in the town of 11,000 inhabitants, situated in the center of that State, some 240 km south of Texas. The state of Tamaulipas, one of six Mexican states bordering the United States, is the place for over a year of bloody clashes between two cartels narco-traffickers, the Gulf cartel and its former allies " Zetas "(the" Z ").
This group is named after the codename for its first leader, Arturo Guzman Decade for the federal police, "Z1". The state of Tamaulipas, is one of the most affected by the violence of drug cartels that have killed more than 34 600 deaths in Mexico during the past four years. It is also in this State, in the town of Padilla, that last February, several clashes between armed groups had killed 18 and 72 migrants were killed, probably by the "Zetas" in late August 2010, in a farm in central region. 
The latter did not specify either the identity of the dead nor the names of groups who have clashed in the town of 11,000 inhabitants, situated in the center of that State, some 240 km south of Texas. The state of Tamaulipas, one of six Mexican states bordering the United States, is the place for over a year of bloody clashes between two cartels narco-traffickers, the Gulf cartel and its former allies " Zetas "(the" Z ").
This group is named after the codename for its first leader, Arturo Guzman Decade for the federal police, "Z1". The state of Tamaulipas, is one of the most affected by the violence of drug cartels that have killed more than 34 600 deaths in Mexico during the past four years. It is also in this State, in the town of Padilla, that last February, several clashes between armed groups had killed 18 and 72 migrants were killed, probably by the "Zetas" in late August 2010, in a farm in central region.
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