in total 10 dead and two policemen injured, a series of clashes between alleged hitmen this Wednesday have stabilized In the state of Michoacán in western Mexico.
The State Minister of Public Safety (SSP) announced that a fierce day began earlier this Wednesday in the municipality of Tarímbaro, adjacent to the city of Morelia, the capital of Michoacán. in this municipality there will be shooters they faced Over three hours in the rural town known as Peña del Panal, where two vehicles were set on fire and injured by multiple bullets.
Meanwhile, the State’s Attorney General’s Office (FGE) reported that hitmen groups had raided three homes in two subdivisions. Three men and one woman were shot dead.. While two of the victims were cremated, another person was killed in another subdivision close to the previous ones.
FGE also reported: find the bodies of two men, near the Morelia-Salamanca federal highway (state of Guanajuato) and just 10 kilometers from Tarímbaro, with traces of torture and gunshot wounds. The eighth victim was a man. death shot By a group of gunmen who broke into his home in the Pablo Galeana neighborhood south of the city of Morelia.
The Michoacán Civil Guard reported that alleged shooters also clashed at various points in the east of Michoacán and in the municipality of Zitácuaro, adjacent to the State of Mexico, where a self-service store and a public transport van were set on fire. In this municipality, National Guard and Civil Guard (State Police) agents They managed to kill two hitmenbut two policemen were wounded by firearms.
Tonight, Army, National Guard and Civil Guard agents are conducting special operations to search for armed groups. Jalisco Nueva Generación, La Familia Michoacana (the main stronghold of the State of Mexico), Los Caballeros Templarios and the Los Correa cartel operate in these areas of Michoacán that oppose control of drug production and trafficking.