Four police officers were killed This Wednesday night in the municipality of Celaya in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, according to authorities. Celaya Citizen Security Secretariat said in a statement: “Four agents from the general directorate of police lost their lives as a result of the cowardly attack of armed men.”
The attack occurred on the highway connecting Celaya to the municipality of Salvatierra, near the community of Santa María del Refugio. Municipal police were patrolling the highway in question. They were attacked with bullets by a group of armed menThis caused the patrol to crash into the wall. Although they tried to repel the attack, 4 police officers lost their lives.
Members of State Public Security Forces, the National Guard, and the Mexican Army arrived on the scene to protect the area. In the statement made by the municipality, it was said: “The Secretariat of Citizen Security will not step back in the fight against crime and will not share the pain experienced by the families and friends of our colleagues on duty.”
Guanajuato’s third-largest city, Celaya, is located in the violent zone known as Laja-Bajío, where the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel was born, led by José Antonio Yépez Ortiz (aka El Marro), who is currently in prison. He was also in that municipality Five medical students were killed On December 3, 2023.
According to the civil organization ‘Causa en Común’, Guanajuato was the state with the most deaths of public security officers in 2023, with 60 cases, while there were 412 recorded at the national level.