Mexico: 2 Men Arrested in Strangling Deaths of Sister Nurses

Mexico: 2 Men Arrested in Strangling Deaths of Sister Nurses
A health worker holds a sign that reads "I am a nurse. I fight for you and for my life" as she takes part in a protest in demand of medical material to care for COVID-19 patients, in Mexico City, Mexico, on April 13, 2020. Alfredo Estrella/AFP via Getty Images
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MEXICO CITY—Two men were arrested for the strangling deaths of three sisters who worked in Mexico’s government hospital system, and authorities ruled out any link to nationwide assaults on medical staff as anxiety over the pandemic escalates.

Initial evidence shows the suspects, a nurse and a municipal market worker in their 20s, planned to rob the women, whose bodies were found in a house in the city of Torreón, said Miguel Ángel Riquelme, governor of the northern border state of Coahuila.