By AFPMore by this AuthorSALAMANCA,A suspected criminal gang left a fake bomb and threatening message for Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador outside an oil refinery Thursday, warning him to stop his crackdown on fuel theft. "FALSE ALARM"It was accompanied by what appeared to be a bomb left inside a pickup truck outside the refinery. "False alarm," Mr Lopez Obrador said at his daily news conference. "There were no explosives in the abandoned pickup truck," presidential spokesman Jesus Ramirez told journalists. Mr Lopez Obrador, an anti-establishment austerity crusader, famously disbanded the presidential guard when he took office.

Source: Daily Nation February 01, 2019 03:11 UTC