MEXICO GANG KILLS 15 POLICE IN WORST ATTACK IN YEARS
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.
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35 BODIES DUMP BY GUNMEN IN MEXICAN CITY AVENUE
Police and members of a forensic team stand around 35 bodies dump in Boca del Rio, on the outskirts of Veracruz
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Suspected drug traffickers drove two trucks to a main avenue in a city on the Gulf of Mexico coast and simply dumped 35 dead bodies during rush hour while gunmen stood guard and pointed their weapons at frightened motorists.Veracruz state Attorney-General Reynaldo Escobar Perez said the bodies were left piled in two trucks and on the ground at an underpass near the city's biggest shopping mall and its statue of the Voladores de Papantla a ritual dancers from Veracruz state.
Police had identified seven of the victims so far and all had criminal records for murder, drug dealing, kidnapping and extortion and were linked to organised crime, Escobar said. He didn't say to what group the victims belonged.- Motorists caught in the horrifying scene on Tuesday afternoon posted warnings on Twitter that masked gunmen in military uniforms were blocking Manuel Avila Camacho Boulevard and pointing their guns at civilians.
The gruesome scene on Tuesday in the downtown area of Boca del Rio was the latest escalation in drug violence in Veracruz state, which sits on an important route for drugs and Central American migrants heading north.The Zetas drug cartel has been locked in a bloody war with drug gangs for control of the state.
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