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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in northern Mexico say criminals are believed to have killed a mother to punish her for the years she spent years searching for her missing daughter.
Miriam Rodriguez was killed in May in the northern state of Tamaulipas. She was one of many Mexicans who have taken it upon themselves to search for missing loved ones because police can't or won't.
The Tamaulipas state attorney general said Thursday that two men have been arrested and that prosecutors believe they killed Rodriguez "in revenge for the work she carried out."
Irving Barrios explained the men knew at least one other suspect who had been jailed for the kidnapping and killing of Rodriguez's daughter Karen in 2014.
Tamaulipas had been plagued by drug violence, massacres and disappearances.
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