Chihuahua: Confrontation in Ignacio Zaragoza leaves 5 burned and decapitated

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat from Norte

A confrontation occurred during the morning of this Sunday on the road that leads from Ignacio Zaragoza to Buenaventura resulting in the killing of several civilians, some of them burned and decapitated, as well as two incinerated trucks.

The confrontation happened at around 11:30 in the morning, two kilometers from the municipality of Ignacio Zaragoza.

When crossing the road that leads to Buenaventura, security officers discovered a completely incinerated truck inside which there were two bodies, also burned and one more in the truck bed.

Similarly, a Silverado pick was found under similar conditions.

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The evidence shows that there was a violent confrontation between drug trafficking gangs [rumored CDS are the dead guys clashed against Linea] that dominate the area, without the state or federal authorities having been able to contain them.

In a communiqué issued this Sunday, October 14, 2018, the State Attorney General's Office detailed the type of heavy weapons used in the fray that occurred in the afternoon.

He also announced that he began an investigation to find those responsible, most likely, just as he did when eight were killed several months ago and that no detainee or criminal group has been reported to date.

On the eve of the July election, an attack was committed by more than two hundred gunmen who massacred multiple people, including the candidate for a political party, and set houses and businesses ablaze.

Then, as now,  the elements of the state forces only acted as "observers" of the barbarism. Some of them, consulted by the North, during a visit to the semi-empty municipal headquarters, reported a little over two months ago that they could not face the criminals because they did not have equipment to counter them.  No weapons, no vehicles, not enough personnel.

At the beginning of 2017, Governor Javier Corral ordered that policemen from some mountain municipalities, including Ignacio Zaragoza, be replaced because the drug cartels had infiltrated them.

Before making that decision, the president had claimed that the participation of federal forces was required to go against the drug traffickers in joint operations.

To date, this coordinated operation has not been done; the result is an increase in the number of homicides in the entire state, especially the mountain area and the border, where the transfer of drugs is a preeminent activity.

As far as the Javier Corral  administration is concerned, there are more than four thousand people killed in the entity and the figure continues to rise.

In this border the number of deaths, mostly linked to drug trafficking, is almost one thousand people so far in 2018, which reaffirms that this is the most violent city in the state.