A 20-year-old state beauty queen died in a gun battle
between soldiers and the alleged gang of drug traffickers she was traveling
with.
The body of Maria Susana Flores Gamez was found Saturday
lying near an assault rifle on a rural road in a mountainous area of the
drug-plagued state of Sinaloa in mexico, the chief state prosecutor said
Monday. It was unclear if she had used the weapon.
"She was with the gang of criminals, but we cannot say
whether she participated in the shootout," state prosecutor Marco Antonio
Higuera said. "That's what we're going to have to investigate."
The slender, 5-foot-7-inch brunette was voted the 2012 Woman
of Sinaloa in a beauty pageant in February. In June, the model competed with
other seven contestants for the more prestigious state beauty contest known as
"Our beauty", but didn't win. The Our Beauty state winners compete
for the Miss Mexico title, whose holder represents the country in the
international Miss Universe.
Higuera said Flores Gamez was traveling in one of the
vehicles that engaged soldiers in an hours-long chase and running gun battle on
Saturday near her native city of Guamuchil in the state of Sinaloa, home to
Mexico's most powerful drug cartel. Higuera said two other members of the drug
gang were killed and four were detained.
Source: Yahoo news
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