Mexico army, police arrest 16 in massacre of sawmill workers

Monday, June 3, 2002

SANTIAGO XOCHILTEPEC, Mexico -- Army troops and police arrested 16 people in remote southern Mexico after 26 sawmill workers were massacred in a land dispute, state officials said Sunday.

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