New fighting and narco blockages in Reynosa

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Noreste article

Subject Matter: Reynosa
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

There have been numerous robberies of large amount of vehicles with extreme violence by armed criminals.

Antagonistic criminal groups last night converted Reynosa into a battle field, in a day of violence that submerged the population into a night of chaos and terror with gun battles, road blocks and massive robbery of vehicles.

Simultaneously during the contingency, which frightened the population for more than two hours due to the detonations of high powered rifles, roadblocks made with hi-jacked public transport services and foreign vehicles.

At the same time, unidentified men threw hundreds to tyre puncturing spikes ( ponchallantas ) int into the streets affecting dozens of private vehicles that were stranded on avenues, boulevards and freeways.

Authorities reacted by conducting ground and air patrols from 9pm, the official summary of detentions was not known since no pronouncements have been made by the authorities.

Army and Navy personnel, in coordination with elements of the Federal, State and Ministerial Police, were travelling in convoy by various routes of the city trying to locate the groups of armed civilians, back by the air from helicopters of different corporations.

Several trucks, some of them with bullet impacts in the bodywork and windshields, were confiscated by authorities when they were found abandoned in different places with the tyres pierced.

As a prelude to the fighting, there were numerous mass robberies of vehicles with extreme violence by armed criminals. Also during the heat of the armed confrontations, several drivers were ripped from their vehicles.

The fiercest confrontations were focused on the Vista Hermosa colonia, Villa Florida , where the confrontations lasted form more than an hour.

Subsequently, the confrontations extended to the settlements of Campestre, Jarachina Sur, Puerta del Sol, Puerta Sur Bugambilias, San Valentin and Lomas Real, among other sectors.

At the same time another series of clashes and blockades occurred in the eastern sector colonias such as Ernesto Zedillo, Lomas de Villar and Benito Juarez.

Another blockade was registered at the Bronco Bridge, causing fear among customers of shopping malls of the area. Shoppers took refuge in cinema theatres and warehouses to avoid the gun fire.

Otis: The following information does not form part of the article above.

From Valor Por Tamaulipas
Injured sicarios were dragged wounded from the battle fields, and were taken to local hospitals for treatment, some nurses were kidnapped to treat the wounded.