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September 23, 2009

Shootout Prompts Closure of US-Mexico Border Crossing
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The US sealed off a border crossing with Mexico Tuesday after a shootout
involving alleged Mexican human traffickers. On Tuesday, armed
assailants opened fire on US agents in an incident at the San Ysidro
crossing between Tijuana and San Diego. The agents had stopped three
vans believed to be carrying undocumented immigrants. Three people in
the vans were wounded along with a motorist in another vehicle.



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