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.
Mexico City attorney general's office announced in a press statement that two city policemen who took custody of the man after he was removed from the tracks have been charged with homicide for allegedly beating him to death later in a patrol car.
Truck driver Albano Ramirez Santos, reportedly despondent over the theft of his truck, had tried to kill himself on Thursday by jumping onto the tracks at a city subway station; trains were stopped, but Ramirez Santos told a subway conductor to leave him where he was because he wanted to die.
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said @ Sun Jan 21, 2007 @ 10:28am
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