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Mexican prosecutors: man who tried to commit suicide beaten to
death by police
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — A man who
tried to commit suicide by throwing himself onto the tracks of
the Mexico City subway was later beaten to death by police,
prosecutors said Saturday.
Two policemen who took custody of
the man after he was removed from the tracks on Thursday were
charged with homicide for allegedly beating him to death in a
patrol car, the Mexico City attorney general's office said in a
statement.
Truck driver Albano Ramirez
Santos, reportedly despondent over the theft of his truck, tried
to kill himself by jumping onto the subway tracks. Trains were
halted but Ramirez Santos told a subway conductor to leave him
where he was because he wanted to die. Station employees removed
him from the tracks.
Police were summoned and officers
Jose de Jesus Sanchez Lemus and Carmelo Campechano Granados took
the truck driver to a police station. But Ramirez Santos was
unconscious when they arrived and a forensic report said he died
of blows to the chest and head unrelated to the suicide attempt.
Prosecutors offered no motive for
the alleged homicide.
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