Bomber killed in Mexico city, his motive unclear

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City investigators on Monday identified the suspect behind a bungled
bomb attack and said the man, the only one killed by the explosion, had
targeted a director at the capital's public security ministry.
Mexico
City's top prosecutor Rodolfo Felix named the victim of Friday's bomb,
a man believed to have been carrying it when it exploded, as
44-year-old Juan Manuel Meza. He did not say whether Meza was working
alone or for a criminal gang.
"From
the investigations and the evidence we have gathered, we can state that
the target of the explosive device was a director of the public
security ministry," Felix told a news conference late on Monday.

He said a woman who was badly burned in the explosion was being treated
as a suspect after security camera footage, which he aired, showed her
talking to Meza shortly before the blast.

Meza, who was killed when the bomb he was apparently carrying went off
prematurely, was lying in wait for his target in a street near the
ministry headquarters in central Mexico City, Felix said.

The injured woman, named as Tania Munoz, had raised suspicions by
asking questions about her companion as she was taken to hospital on
Friday.

The video footage showed her walking along the street with Meza, who
was carrying a small bag, minutes before the small homemade bomb
exploded, also hurting a third man.[/q]

MEXICO CITY — A bomb that exploded Friday near the Mexico City police headquarters was carried by an unidentified man wearing two layers of clothing, the police said Saturday. They said that the man died in the blast and that no evidence had yet been found linking him to a guerrilla group or a drug cartel.

Investigators believe the man intended to plant the bomb at the police headquarters, about 300 yards from where he was found, but it went off in his hand. One theory was that he wore a suit over another change of clothes because he wanted to evade the police after the bombing.

It remained unclear whether a young woman — one of two people wounded in the attack — had been accompanying the man or merely crossed paths with him at the wrong time. The woman, Tania Vázquez, 22, lives in the city’s Tepito section, two blocks from the home of Rogelio Mena, suspected of being a member of the Sinaloa drug cartel whom the city police arrested Tuesday, the newspaper El Universal said.

Tania Vazquez the twenty two year woman thatt resulted wounded by an explosive artefact has not declared yet before the police, she has second degree burns over fifty percent of her body. It is believed by city authorities that she was with the bomber.

Testigo de explosión no ha declarado ante policía por seguir hospitalizada

La mujer de 22 años que resultó herida en la explosión de un artefacto en la ciudad de México sigue hospitalizada y aún no ha declarado ante las autoridades, dijeron hoy a Efe fuentes de la investigación.

Tania Vázquez resultó herida ayer con quemaduras de segundo grado en el 50 por ciento de su cuerpo y las autoridades capitalinas creen que acompañaba al hombre al que le estalló el artefacto y quien resultó muerto.