Texas official issues warning after rancher killed by cartel IED in Mexico


Texas ranchers working near the southern border have been urged to exercise extreme caution when traveling through Mexico after one of their own was killed earlier this month by an improvised explosive device (IED).

Antonio Céspedes Saldierna, 74, a Texas rancher who worked on both sides of the border, was driving near his ranch in Tamaulipas, Mexico, just south of Brownsville, Texas, when he was killed by an IED, KRGV-TV reported. Also killed was Horacio Lopez Peña. Ninfa Griselda Ortega, Lopez’s wife, was hospitalized with injuries.

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