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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Rebecca Whittaker

Tourist describes horror as violence erupts in Mexico after drug lord El Mencho killed

A British tourist left stranded in a Mexican village as violence swept across the country has described a frightening journey past blocked roads and burnt out cars in a bid to find his way to safety.

Andy Martin, 33, from London was staying in a cabin in El Estuche, just outside of Tapalpa in the western state of Jalisco when Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho was killed in a security operation to arrest him.

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