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Mexican police kill 4 cartel suspects near Guatemala border
Criminal violence, mostly linked to drugs, has claimed around 480,000 lives in Mexico since 2006. (EPA Images pic) TUXTLA GUTIERREZ : Police in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and federal forces killed four suspected criminals today during a chase in an area bordering Guatemala, the local government said. A statement from the local security secretariat said the events occurred in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa after security forces were attacked while on a routine patrol. 'Authorities repelled the fire… and managed to kill four suspected members of organised crime,' the statement said. Local media reported that the security forces may have entered Guatemalan territory during the pursuit. Guatemalan vice-president Karin Herrera wrote on social media platform X that 'the border is under control' and that the army and police maintain 'an active presence in the area to guarantee the protection and security of the population'. The Chiapas security secretariat insisted that the operation took place within Mexico. A source from the agency, who asked not to be identified, told AFP the dead were members of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel. In recent months, Chiapas has been shaken by a bloody turf war between the Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa cartels – the country's two most powerful criminal organisations. Last week, five Chiapas state police officers patrolling the area were killed after they were ambushed by an armed group in Frontera Comalapa, according to the local security secretariat. Criminal violence, most of it linked to drug trafficking, has claimed around 480,000 lives in Mexico since 2006 and left more than 120,000 people missing.
Arab News
27-05-2025
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17 bodies found in abandoned house in Mexico
MEXICO: Missing persons investigators found 17 bodies in an abandoned house in a central Mexican region plagued by criminal violence, the state prosecutor's office said. Ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs were used to locate the bodies last week in Irapuato in Guanajuato state, according to a statement released late Monday. Knives, machetes, pickaxes, and shovels were also found. Five of the victims — four men and one woman --- have been identified as missing persons, according to prosecutors. 'Their families are being informed,' a Guanajuato state official, Jorge Jimenez, told reporters. Guanajuato is a thriving industrial hub and home to several popular tourist destinations, but it is also Mexico's deadliest state due to gang turf wars, according to official homicide statistics. Criminal violence, most of it linked to drug trafficking, has claimed around 480,000 lives in Mexico since 2006 and left more than 120,000 people missing. Civil society groups formed by relatives who denounce government inaction risk their own lives searching for remains in unmarked graves, often in areas where cartel gunmen are active. Much of the violence in Guanajuato is linked to conflict between the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the Jalisco New Generation cartel, one of the most powerful in the Latin American nation. Guanajuato recorded more than 3,000 murders last year, the most of any Mexican state, according to official figures. That was equivalent to just over 10 percent of the nationwide total.
