GUADALAJARA, Mexico - Fifteen police officers were killed in a gang ambush in
western Mexico, an official said Tuesday, marking the deadliest day in
recent years for security forces battling the drug war.
Five more officers were wounded in Monday’s assault, which took place
on a twisting rural highway near the village of Soyatan as a convoy
carrying the elite state police unit headed to Guadalajara, Mexico’s
second biggest city.
Authorities suspect the powerful “Jalisco New Generation Drug Cartel”
carried out the assault against the officers after waiting for them in a
makeshift encampment for one or two days.
The assailants blocked the road with vehicles, pouring fuel on them
and setting the cars on fire, said Francisco Alejandro Solorio Arechiga,
Jalisco’s state security commissioner, who said a “large number” of
them attacked the officers.
“They died in a cowardly attack, which means that we can’t let our
guard down,” Solorio said after a meeting of federal police, military
and state security officials in Guadalajara, adding that the wounded
officers were in stable condition.
It was the heaviest single-day loss for Mexican security forces since
the start of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s two-year-old
administration.
Source: NST(AFP)...More
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