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Police are searching for 24-year old New York Mets reliever Ambiorix Burgos who was driving an SUV when he ran over two women who later died of their injuries in a Nagua hospital.

Josefina Minaya Martinez, 38, and Angely Fana, 29, were struck by a new Hummer on the Cabrera-Nagua highway on Tuesday. A relative of Burgos came forward saying he had been driving the vehicle. The Police arrested him as an accomplice.

Police says that Burgos was involved in other violent events in the area, but on previous occasions the victims settled their complaints out of court.

Several witnesses identified Burgos as the driver of the vehicle.

The Mets have announced they would be carrying out their own investigation into the case. “We are extremely disturbed by the reports regarding the player’s potential involvement in the hit-and-run accident that unfortunately killed two women,” the Mets [...]

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