Guerrero: 7 killed as Police Escort ambushed transporting 1 Million MXN, funds slated for social programs

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from El Manana

 5 Dead Municipal Police Escorts for Bansefi Delivery
 for the Mexican Federal Gov't Program Prospera
Two Bansefi Employees also were murdered

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Note from Yaqui   A description of the Prospera Program can be found here.   The idea was simple enough: give money to a mother to encourage her to send her children to school and to the health center. That simple idea, which began in the 1990s, has now become a nationwide program in Mexico, benefitting 5.8 million families – a fourth of the country’s total population.
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An armed commando of up to 15 men shot to death five municipal police officers and two employees of Bansefi to strip them of $977,000 thousand Pesos in Federal support monies that would be distributed to marginalized communities of Ahuacuotzingo, Guerrero.

According to state authorities, the armed group ambushed agents and bank employees on the road leading to the community of Tecozaca, in the vicinity of the town of Zompazolco. In these events, registered yesterday morning, a employee  of National Bank for Savings and Financial Services who was injured in the attack reported it  by telephone.

According to the spokesperson of the Guerrero Coordination Group, Roberto Álvarez Heredia, after murdering the seven people and wounding another, the criminals took out of the vehicle the resources destined for the Federal Government's Prospera program .

The five policemen guarded the vehicle of the two Bansefi  employees in a patrol when, when passing through a gorge where  armed men  were distributed in three points shot them. Information from the Ahuacuotzingo City Council indicates that at least 15 heavily armed men participated in the attack, which occurred in the Lower Mountain region, all of which escaped.

In this Municipality there is a confrontation for the dominance of the planting and transport of the drugs among the criminal groups of "Los Rojos" ,  "The Chiefs" and "Los Ardillos".

Staff of the Office of the Attorney General of Guerrero, supported by the Army and the State Police and Ministerial Investigator, carried out investigations at the scene of the attack, without detaining any suspects.  

In the afternoon, Bansefi lamented the violence in which two colleagues lost their lives and announced that they will reinforce security measures for their workers. On June 1 in the municipality of Cualac in the Mountain region, armed men assaulted employees of Prospera who were going to pay the community of Coatlaco. On that occasion three municipal policemen died; Three more were injured, as well as an employee of Prospera . The amount of the robbery this time was 3 million pesos.

Relative of Kidknapping Victim Looking for Answers
Quetzalapa,  Huitzuco,  Guerrero 

In another incident, yesterday morning in the municipality of Huitzuco, in the northern region, armed men assaulted a passenger van in the community of Quetzalapa. At the time of fleeing they took with them a 16-year-old teenager.