AZMEX EXTRA 16 AUG 2016
Note: Photo at link.
More than 19,000 firearms and 125,000 cartridges destroyed.
August 16, 2016 by Alejandro Monjardín
http://riodoce.mx/gob-politica/estatal-gob-politica/destruyen-mas-de-19-mil-armas-de-fuego-y-125-mil-cartuchos-decomisados
More than 19,000 firearms and 125,000 rounds of ammunition seized by the army were destroyed in the facilities of the Ninth Military Zone.
The commander of the Zone, Rogelio Seran Contreras informed that the destroyed weapons were secured in the areas comprising the Third Military Region. 19,640 weapons.
Of the weapons, the elements of the Ninth Zone seized, 5,204, of which 3,293 were handguns and 1,911 (long guns?).
The event also destroyed 125,000 cartridges of different calibers.
The general said that throughout the country they are holding events of destruction of firearms secured from organized crime groups.
The weapons were crushed by a steamroller and then cut by a machine.
The remains were buried in a hole located at the barracks and then was covered with a concrete slab.
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