LAHTA police chief and two of his bodyguards were killed and another police officer was wounded in an attack by suspected cartel gunmen in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
Those deaths bring to nine the number of police officers killed by alleged members of criminal gangs in less than a month in different parts of Veracruz.
According to investigators’ reports, the police came under attack by six gunmen in the El Naranjito neighborhood of the town of Cosoleacaque.
The slain men were the deputy coordinator of the Minatitlan-Cosoleacaque Inter-Municipal Police force, Juan Moreno Lopez, and his bodyguards, Alvaro Olguin Chagala and Moises Ramos.
One police officer also was wounded and another has been reported missing.
Army soldiers and local police officers launched an operation to locate the assailants but it has not yet produced any results.
On April 4, a police chief and five officers under his command were killed in an armed clash with suspected cartel gunmen in a rural area outside the Veracruz town of El Higo, near the border with the violence-wracked northeastern state of Tamaulipas.
Veracruz has seen constant fighting over the past four months between different federal forces and suspected enforcers for drug traffickers.
The Mexican army and navy and the Federal Police have reported a total of 29 people slain in 10 gun battles in Veracruz state since January, all of them purported members of organized-crime gangs.
Most of those armed clashes took place in the northern part of Veracruz, near the border with Tamaulipas.
Juan Moreno Lopez
Gulf killing Zeta cops,or is it Zetas killing Gulf cops? Who will ever know?
ReplyDeleteZetas have been very strong in Veracruz for years. It is easy to assume they were Zeta cops. Wow, we are seeing a cleansing right before our eyes. Between the Feds, the military, and CDG, Zetas are being wiped out systematically. The lucky ones get arrested. The plaza bosses are dropping like flies and are usually accompanied with 10 or 15 others.
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