Ten people were killed and two police officers injured in clashes in the western Mexican state of Michoacán on Wednesday.
The State Secretariat for Public Security reported that the violence began in the early hours of Wednesday morning in the municipality of Tarímbaro.
The Attorney General’s Office said groups of hitmen raided three homes, where they killed three men and a woman. Two of the victims were burned.
The same institution also reported on the discovery of the bodies of two men, with traces of torture and gunshot wounds, just ten kilometers from Tarímbaro.
The eighth victim was a man shot dead by a group of assailants who broke into the house where he lived, in the Pablo Galeana neighborhood, south of the city of Morelia.
The Civil Guard of Michoacán reported that other attackers were also responsible for acts of violence at several points in the municipality of Zitacuaro, east of Michoacán and on the border with the state of Mexico, where a convenience store and a public transportation van were attacked. firework. .
In this municipality, agents of the National Guard and the Guardia Civil managed to kill two of the attackers, with two police officers being shot.
The army, the National Guard and the Civil Guard conduct special operations to search for armed groups.
In these areas of Michoacán, the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, La Familia Michoacana (whose main redoubt is the State of Mexico), Los Caballeros Templarios and the Los Correa Cartel operate. All of these groups compete for control over drug production and trafficking.
Source: DN
