Five Mexican police officers were shot dead and five others wounded in Michoacan state, a violence-hit region, on the eve of the World Cup opener in Mexico City.
Five Mexican police officers were shot dead and five others wounded Wednesday in violence-hit Michoacan state on the eve of the World Cup opener in Mexico City, local authorities said.
The officers were attacked by unknown assailants in an Indigenous region of the western state, which is plagued by cartel violence, the state government reported. , the Moriela Police Department identified the slain officers as Porfirio Rodriguez Briseno, Brandon Josue Zamora Torres, Francisco Javier Otero Damas, Jonatan Mondragon Servin and Mateo Valdez Abarca. Jose Pablo Alarcon Olemdo, the city's former police chief, extended his condolences the victims' families and friends.
In May, the brazen murder of a small-city mayor, allegedly by the CJNG, prompted angry protests targeting symbols of the state, which many residents accused of failing to combat spiraling violence. Michoacan's capital Morelia is situated around 300 kilometers from both Mexico City and fellow World Cup host city Guadalajara. The state's security department said police were searching for the perpetrators of Wednesday's attack.
U.S. Embassy said In late April, the Mexican military captured one of the CJNG's top leaders in the northwest of the country, two months after the cartel's leader was killed. Audias Flores Silva, also known as"El Jardinero," or The Gardener, was seen as a possible successor to the killed leader and the United States had a with a wave of attacks on businesses by cartel gunmen, vehicle burnings and road blockades that killed more than 70 people, including 25 National Guard members.
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