| Information Agency Wants Comprehensive Figures on Mexican Military Casualties Latin American Herald Tribune | |
| go to original April 17, 2014 |
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MEXICO CITY – A request has been submitted to the Defense Secretariat for a complete list of military personnel killed since December 2006 following the review of a report that listed the deaths of 410 armed forces personnel, the Mexican Federal Institute for Access to Information (IFAI) said.
... The Defense Secretariat listed 410 armed forces members who died between Dec. 12, 2006, and March 31, 2014, from automobile accidents (170), attacks with firearms (90), murders (73), aviation accidents (50), being run over by vehicles (10), drowning (seven), dehydration (four), falls (three), heatstroke (two) and lightning strikes (one).
... IFAI commissioner Maria Elena Perez-Jaen reviewed the information and concluded that the Defense Secretariat did not interpret the request correctly because it only provided death figures linked to the war on drugs.
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