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Road workers forced to duck for cover after gun shots are fired across Mexico border
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Last updated at 5:55 PM on 14th January 2011
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Four U.S. road workers were shot at by at least one gunman using a high-powered rifle from across the Mexico border, sheriff officials have said.
A white pickup truck was seen fleeing the area on the Mexican side of the border in a ghost town near Fort Hancock, Texas.
The bullets struck private land along the unpaved Indian Hot Springs Road - around half a mile from the border fence.
The workers had been filling holes along the road caused by rainstorm damage.
Shooting: The border crossing at Fort Hancock,Texas, where U.S. workers were fired on from Mexico as they repaired the road
Mike Doyle, chief deputy of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's office, said the gunman may have opened fire at the workers to distract them or get them to flee the area.
He told the El Paso Times: 'Maybe they were trying to get them outside this area.'
He added that officers and Texas Rangers were assuming the bullets had been fired from Mexico.
One of the workers reported hearing eight shots that 'sounded like high-powered rifles'.
On the Mexican side, the nearest community is Banderas, but roads connect the area with Ojinaga, Presidio and even Juarez.
Drug cartels use the border area to traffic marijuana and cocaine between Chihuahua state and the U.S.
The U.S. government built narrowly spaced steel poles along the Rio Grande to fence off the border in that part of Texas, but small objects can fit between the poles.
Sheriff Arvin West added: 'You can walk up and stick your gun through.
In El Paso, stray bullets from a drug-related gunfight hit the City Hall in June and a bullet hit a building at the University of Texas in August.
Tourist David Hartley is believed to have been shot dead by Mexican gunmen in October while jetskiing on Falcon Lake, a border area near Laredo, Texas.
Katherine Cesinger, a spokesman for Texas Governor Rick Perry, said: 'If these reports are true, it is yet another incident of border violence and spillover.
'It goes back for the need for the federal government to provide more resources to the border, which is certainly feeling the effects of escalating violence in Mexico.'
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Road workers forced to duck for cover after gun shots are fired across Mexico border
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 5:55 PM on 14th January 2011
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Four U.S. road workers were shot at by at least one gunman using a high-powered rifle from across the Mexico border, sheriff officials have said.
A white pickup truck was seen fleeing the area on the Mexican side of the border in a ghost town near Fort Hancock, Texas.
The bullets struck private land along the unpaved Indian Hot Springs Road - around half a mile from the border fence.
The workers had been filling holes along the road caused by rainstorm damage.
Shooting: The border crossing at Fort Hancock,Texas, where U.S. workers were fired on from Mexico as they repaired the road
Mike Doyle, chief deputy of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's office, said the gunman may have opened fire at the workers to distract them or get them to flee the area.
He told the El Paso Times: 'Maybe they were trying to get them outside this area.'
He added that officers and Texas Rangers were assuming the bullets had been fired from Mexico.
One of the workers reported hearing eight shots that 'sounded like high-powered rifles'.
On the Mexican side, the nearest community is Banderas, but roads connect the area with Ojinaga, Presidio and even Juarez.
Drug cartels use the border area to traffic marijuana and cocaine between Chihuahua state and the U.S.
The U.S. government built narrowly spaced steel poles along the Rio Grande to fence off the border in that part of Texas, but small objects can fit between the poles.
Sheriff Arvin West added: 'You can walk up and stick your gun through.
In El Paso, stray bullets from a drug-related gunfight hit the City Hall in June and a bullet hit a building at the University of Texas in August.
Tourist David Hartley is believed to have been shot dead by Mexican gunmen in October while jetskiing on Falcon Lake, a border area near Laredo, Texas.
Katherine Cesinger, a spokesman for Texas Governor Rick Perry, said: 'If these reports are true, it is yet another incident of border violence and spillover.
'It goes back for the need for the federal government to provide more resources to the border, which is certainly feeling the effects of escalating violence in Mexico.'
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