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Mexican beauty queen Maria Susana Flores, 22, was killed during a shootout with Mexican security forces last Saturday in the town of Mocorito, Sinaloa. The body of Maria Susana Flores Gamez was found lying near an assault rifle on a rural road in a mountainous area of the drug-plagued state. It was unclear if she had used the weapon.
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"She was with the gang of criminals, but we cannot say whether she participated in the shootout," state prosecutor Marco Antonio Higuera said. "That's what we're going to have to investigate."
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The doe-eyed, slender brunette was voted the 2012 Woman of Sinaloa in a beauty pageant in February. She had earlier competed for the other, more prestigious state beauty contest, Our Beauty Sinaloa, but didn't win.
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Higuera said Flores Gamez was traveling in one of the vehicles that engaged with soldiers in an hours-long chase and running gun battle on Saturday. Higuera said two other members of the drug gang were killed and four were detained. However, she is not the only "beauty" queen linked to criminal bands.
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Zulema Hernandez began a relationship with Joaquin El Chapo Guzman after she met him in the prison of Puente Grande, Jalisco, in 1997. She disappeared from the public eye until she was found dead in a car with the 'Z' in her body. The body was covered in a pink blanket and her head and her feet were tied up with tape. The autopsy revealed that she was suffocated and then topped with a headshot.
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The woman became famous after having fought in four attacks, but she couldn't dodged the fifth assassination attempt on August 9,2009.
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Another example is the shooting of Zayda Pena Arjona, a Mexican regional singer. She was killed by a gunman at a hospital in the northern city of Matamoros, where she was recovering from wounds at a shooting attack hours earlier in a motel room. Her death was linked to the organized crime.
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Currently, victims of the drug in Mexico are around 70,000, according to Mexican authorities. However, Defense Secretary of the United States (U.S.), Leon Panetta said last March that number could exceed 100,000.
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Mexican beauty queen Maria Susana Flores, 22, was killed during a shootout with Mexican security forces last Saturday in the town of Mocorito, Sinaloa. The body of Maria Susana Flores Gamez was found lying near an assault rifle on a rural road in a mountainous area of the drug-plagued state. It was unclear if she had used the weapon.
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