Violence in Michoacán: police ambush left three injured and one assailant killed

At least three state police officers were injured and one suspected assailant was killed after a ambush in Zitácuaro, Michoacán, by members of organized crime.

According to reports from Department of Public Security State, the attack took place in the city of Aputzio, when the men in uniform carried out preventive surveillance for which an operation was deployed.

“It is reported a deceased civilian, Running a search engine for people involved in the event and prevention efforts have been stepped up to ensure the safety of citizens, ”the Israel-led agency Patron Reyes reported.

From a video broadcast on social networks, we see that two patrols were attacked, one of them was abandoned on the site. While another, marked with the number 20-9208, was approached by the police to safeguard his integrity and to leave the area.

One of the officers was injured with possible gunshot wounds to the foot. Desperate, he screams to ask for the “K-8”And advises them to better undertake the Withdrawal. Another of the elements fires deterrent shots while his colleague complains of pain and immediately they board the patrol.

Among them, they say they should seek help and take shelter. The unit left behind was observed with flat tires.

The ambush was on the road in a wooded area where there would have been no cellular network. Extra-official versions indicated that it was an attack carried out by suspected members of the Michoacan family.

On May 19, in the same municipality of Zitacuaro, the corpses of nine people which would have been executed by the Michoacan family.

The Michoacán prosecutor assured that they were suspected drug traffickers, since the eight men and the woman tested positive for the presence of narcotics, according to the autopsies carried out.

“There is research evidence that indicates that the deceased could be linked to the consumption and distribution of drugs in this region; we also know that they were deprived of life elsewhere and left here in Michoacán, we continue the investigations to clarify the facts in their entirety, ”reported Adrián López Solís, head of the attorney general’s office.

According to local reports and a narco-message left at the scene, this crime was attributed to Medardo Hernández Vera, the Butters I the 100, alleged lieutenant in Zitácuaro of the Michoacan family, as well as in the municipalities of Guerrero and the State of Mexico, in the region known as Tierra Caliente.

Supposedly, the Butters He tried to force the communal authorities as well as the inhabitants of the region to sell drugs. Its main competitors are Jalisco Next Generation Cartel who’s ordering Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the Mencho.

“We have intelligence information which indicates that the most recent acts of violence in this part of the state are due to lawsuits between criminal groups and we are not going to allow them to put the population in distress. we will act and go for them.

“They come from neighboring states, they generate crimes and return to their places where they are installed ”, indicated the governor of Michoacán during the Coordination Table for the Construction of Peace.

Silvano Halo He added that the criminal groups had a very strong dispute over taking control of the area, but he vowed that this would not be allowed during his efforts.

In an official statement, the authorities said that the staff of the Specialized crime scene unit (UECS) of the Zitácuaro Regional Prosecutor’s Office, was established in Benedicto López Sur Street in the Centro neighborhood, after receiving a report.

Upon arrival, they made the shocking discovery of An abandoned Nissan pickup truck, type redilas, in which the bodies were found, stacked at the rear of the unit. All the people had gunshot wounds.

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