Mexico's Top Drug Lord Dies In A Hail Of Bullets

The undated image, downloaded from the website of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on Nov. 5, 2010, shows alleged Mexico's Gulf drug cartel leader Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen. According to Mexico's Federal security spokesman Alejandro Poire, Cardenas was killed during a clash with marines in Matamoros City, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, on Nov. 5, 2010.(Xinhua/HO/DEA)

Top Mexican Drugs Lord Killed In Fierce Gunbattle With Military -- The Guardian

'Storm Tony', high-profile leader of the Gulf cartel, and four of his gunmen die in attacks by navy special forces and helicopters.

Mexican authorities have killed one of the country's most wanted drug lords following hours of ferocious gun battles close to the US border. Antonio Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén, otherwise known as Tony Tormenta or Storm Tony, was the highest-profile leader of the Gulf cartel, one of the country's most important trafficking organisations.

As news of his demise spread across the northeastern state of Tamaulipas yesterday, so did fear of a backlash. A reporter in the border city of Reynosa said gunmen immediately took over the main road along the Mexican side of the Río Bravo. "It is going to be a bloody weekend," she wrote.

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