Mexican soccer match suspended after gun fight erupts outside stadium

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Source: Baltimore Sun

A First Division Mexican soccer match was suspended Saturday after gunmen opened fire on police outside the stadium in the northern city of Torreon, causing players and referees to run for cover.

Local clubs Santos and Morelia were tied 0-0 at the 40-minute mark when the shots were heard inside the stadium.

Televised footage showed the players and referees dashing off the field to take cover inside the stadium. Santos' Argentine forward Emanuel Luduena ran with his child in his arms.

Fans, many with children, ducked for cover and hundreds ran onto the field to move away from the sound of the gunfire outside TSM stadium.

Torreon police and local soccer officials said the attack left one police officer injured, but no one was hurt inside the stadium.
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Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-soc-mexico-soccer-stadium-shooting,0,7029886.story

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1. WTF is going on in Mexico. Is it a battle the government and police/military can win?

Will it spill into the US? Has it already?

[pipoman]

2. The US war on drugs..

[TheWraith]

5. It's not winnable so long as we keep funding the opposition.

As long as the trade in illegal drugs, particularly cocaine, is profitable, there will always be criminal organizations prepared to supply it by any means necessary. You could kill off one entire gang, and then another will form out of the rubble, and draw on poor and desperate people with no other options for use as footsoldiers.

It's like with Prohibition. So long as booze was illegal, and people wanted it, others would supply it. The only solution is legalization.

[ChandlerJr]

3. I just love soccer, it's so sophisticated, so European

so unlike our violent sports here in the states.

Why can't we be like they are, perfect in every way
Oh, what's the matter with kids today?

[BadtotheboneBob]

4. Yeah, I just love those British soccer hooligan fans...

So sophisticated, ya know? LOL

[nevergiveup]

6. nominated for dumbest post of the day

[ChandlerJr]

7. If that's what it took to get you out of your shell

it was worth it.