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• •More Violence Feared As Mexico Counts Votes*TIJUANA, Mexico (UPI) — New outbreaks of violence in the wake of the wounding of a 5-year-old girl and charges of ballot cheating and political arrests were feared today when the government announces the results in Baja California’s second major election.Candidates for the Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), the party which has been in power in Mexico for 49 years, were unofficially reported running ahead in the vote count over opposition National Action Party (PAN) candidates.Salvadore Magallon, 41, was the PAN candidate for governor of the state established in 1953. He opposed Eligio Esquivel, 51, of the PRI. Esquivel had the backing of incumbent Gov. Brauilio Maldonado who is not eligible to succeed himself.The girl, Rosa Salcido, was shot in the back of the neck Sunday night in the only reported major eruption of violence in the three main population areas of Tijuana, Ensenada and the state capital,Mexicali, despite heavy voter turnout of up to 90 per cent.Shooting started in a north district polling area here when an angry crowd of about 1,000 PAN partisans gathered to protest alleged confiscation of 8 to 15 ballot boxes in the district by the government. The district is a PAN stronghold.Police and federal soldiers brought into the state to maintain peace clashed with the crowd with clubs and rifle butts when it was too slow in dispersing! Witnesses said police fired several shots into the air and then both police and soldiers opened fire into the crowd.Rosa and two other persons were felled by bullets as they fled. The little girl was taken to Aleman j Hospital where doctors said her condition was extremely critical.” The two other victims, both unidentified, were believed to have suffered only minor wounds.
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Ogden Standard Examiner
Ogden, Utah, US
Mon, Aug 03, 1959
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