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Three Illegal Immigrants Killed in Arizona Ambush NewsMax.com Wires TUCSON, ARIZ. -- Gunmen stopped a pickup full of illegal immigrants, shot some and took the rest captive Thursday in an attack that left at least three men dead and two people wounded, authorities said. Authorities were trying to determine who the gunmen were and said some of the immigrants remained missing. The men shot three people, one fatally, along a known smuggling corridor near Tucson, then forced several other immigrants in the group to leave with them, Pima County sheriff's officials said. The bodies of two of those immigrants were found about 10 miles north in the truck that had been carrying the group. Two immigrants who were not injured were in custody and telling deputies what happened, but the others had not been found by midday Thursday. The crime was similar to a robbery Wednesday night more than 70 miles south, near the Mexican border, said Rick Kastigar, the Pima County sheriff's criminal investigations chief. In that incident, four men carrying assault weapons and wearing ski masks robbed 18 immigrants, but no one was reported injured. Investigators did not immediately know a motive for Thursday's attack, but bandits are known to roam border areas preying on illegal immigrants as they cross into the country. Story Continues Below
Thursday's attack occurred on a dirt road near the Silverbell Mine, about 20 miles northwest of Tucson, Kastigar said. The immigrants were heading north when four men armed with assault rifles in another vehicle stopped them, Kastigar said. One man was killed, another was shot in the hand — losing several fingers — and a woman was shot in the chest and suffered a neck injury. The two wounded immigrants were taken to a hospital with "very, very serious injuries," said sheriff's Sgt. James Ogden.
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