Two gun attacks among hitmen in Mexico: 9 people died

The State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) informed EFE that the first incident of violence occurred this Friday morning on the highway connecting the municipalities of Coalcomán and Chinicuila, in a forested area of ​​the Sierra Madre del Sur. Prosecution officers were found in this area a burned vehicle corpses five men were shot, a sixth body was found a few meters from the venue. Residents of Sierra Madre del Sur reported to the FGE that assault rifle explosions were heard before the bodies were found, suggesting that there may have been a shootout between drug gangs.

In a second incident, the Civil Guard (State Police) stated that in the municipality of Uruapan in central Michoacán, two groups of enemy shooters were engaged with large-caliber rifles. The gunfight occurred in the afternoon in two residential areas known as Tejerías and El Planetario. three alleged shooters were killed and possibly several more injured.

Agents of the Civil Guard and the Mexican Army launched an operation that allowed the capture of fifteen people armed with assault rifles, pistols and bulletproof vests. The fifteen detained were sent to the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), where agents investigated which drug trafficking groups they belonged to.

The Civil Guard also revealed a number of armed conflicts between civiliansIn the municipality of Buenavista Tomatlán in the Tierra Caliente region, however, no deaths, injuries or arrests have been reported so far.

In Michoacán, distinctive drug trafficking organizations such as the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), United Cartels, the Tepalcatepec Cartel, Zicuirán Cartel, and the Knights Templar, among others, operate in a bloody and heated dispute over control of Michoacán. illegal activities such as drug production and trafficking, extortion and kidnapping.