Drug lord dies in hail of bullets

  Mexican security forces have shot dead leading drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva in the biggest strike yet, but experts warn his death could trigger new bloodshed.

Beltran Leyva, a cartel chief dubbed the 'boss of bosses', was killed in a spray of bullets by elite navy troops at a luxury apartment complex in Cuernavaca.

One of the country's most wanted traffickers, his death is a major coup for the Government at the end of a year when drug violence has exploded to unprecedented levels.

Yet analysts warned the death could speak new violence as the Beltran Beltran Leyva cartel regroups and strikes back at security forces and whoever it believes tipped them off.
 

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