Mexican security forces engaged in a prolonged shootout with heavily armed suspected cartel members in Sinaloa state on Thursday, in an operation that ensnared a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman
Mexico City Mexican security forces engaged in a prolonged shootout with heavily armed suspected cartel members in Sinaloa state Thursday, in an operation that ensnared a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin"El Chapo" Guzman.
Mexican federal troops had initially detained Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 28, in the northern city of Culiacan, in what Mexico's State Security Secretary Cristoban Castanillo called a"federally-coordinated operation." But Security Minister Alfonso Durazo has told Reuters that he was later released, saying the decision was taken to protect lives.
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