3 men pushing car filled with explosives detained at Mexican border city
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}JUAREZ, MEXICO - MARCH 24: A member of the Mexican military police keeps guard over a car, pictured at left, bearing a bullet-ridden body on March 24, 2010 in Juarez, Mexico. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano all visited Mexico yesterday for discussions centered on Mexico's endemic drug-related violence. The border city of Juarez, Mexico has been racked by violent drug-related crime recently and has quickly become one of the most dangerous cities in the world in which to live. As drug cartels have been fighting over ever-lucrative drug corridors along the United States border, the murder rate in Juarez has risen to 173 slayings for every 100,000 residents. President Felipe Calderon's strategy of sending 7000 troops to Juarez has not mitigated the situation. With a population of 1.3 million, 2,600 people died in drug-related violence last year and 500 so far this year, including two Americans recently who worked for the U.S. Consulate and were killed as they returned from a child's party. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (2010 Getty Images)
Police in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez say they have detained three men who were pushing a car laden with explosives.
The explosives included two tubes of ANFO, or ammonium nitrate-fuel oil, a potent explosive often used in industry. Officials say the explosives would have caused damage in a 40-yard (meter) radius had they detonated.
The Chihuahua state prosecutors' office said Tuesday that police also found three batteries, two bottles of fuel and electrical wire in the car. It said the men who were pushing the car also had marijuana and guns.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In July 2010, a car bomb aimed at federal police officers exploded in Ciudad Juarez, killing three people and wounding nine. But drug violence in the city across from El Paso, Texas, has calmed since 2011.
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