VIDEO: Terror in the Streets of Guaymas, Sonora

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: El Sol

             
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When the night came a tense calm  lived in the port of Guaymas after the series of armed attacks that cost the lives of at least four Municipal Police officers and where, in addition, three other soldiers were seriously wounded Thursday , October 4.

It was near 12:00 o'clock noon that the machine guns began to rumble in the streets of the Center of Guaymas, when at the height of Serdan y Nueve streets  the wave of attacks began that continued until Serdán Street and  Street 15.

According to the information obtained, the target of the first attack were the uniformed elements on board unit 181 of the municipal corporation, who were on regular surveillance routes and were surprised by an armed commando of a gray truck, who opened fire using heavy gauge rifles.

                                    The main street in Colonia Centro , Guaymas , Sonora

A convoy of assassins with assault rifles attacked the Tactical Operations Group of the Municipal Police in Guaymas , leaving five officers dead and two seriously injured. 

The attack occurred at noon on Thursday in the Colonia Centro, in an area surrounded by schools, just at the time the students left school. 

According to the witness version, the attackers in several trucks cornered the agents who were boarding a double-cabin pick-up patrol; By repelling the aggression, the policemen were outnumbered in number and ability to fire.

                                     Unarmed Municipal Transit Officer Died at the Scene

In their attempt to escape, the assassins also riddled with gunfire a Transit Officer who was not armed because he is the one who stops the traffic to give him the passage of students and parents crossing the streets. 

The first confrontation took place on Agustín García López Street and Calle Nueve; When they escaped to the south of Guaymas, the hitmen fired at the Municipal Transit officer at Calle Catorce and Avenida Serdán.

On Thursday afternoon, when she was transferred to Hermosillo on a helicopter, Agent Dulce Alejandra Rojo died ; Two other survivors are reported in a serious state of health.

This attack against municipal agents occurs two months after the episode where criminal groups threatened reprisals to this corporation, by a video where officers are seen handing over three young men arrested and who remain missing,  to a convoy of hit men. 

Later, an armed group attacked the subcommander of the Police, Lilian Arce Garcia, who survived the attack seriously injured, occupies the ownership of Municipal Public Security in Guaymas in the new administration. 

After the series of shootings, several operatives with the participation of forces of the three levels of government were deployed by the port city which gave as first results the location of a gray Nissan Pathfinder truck, where the assassins left abandoned tactical equipment, as well as two "goat horn" boots, caliber 7.62 X 39 mm.

Unofficial versions claim that there were up to seven executed:

Not withstanding the above, unofficially and before the patent silence on the part of the authorities, some nearby sources in the city have stated that it was the entire group of tactical operations of Guaymas that the hitmen liquidated, speaking of up to seven dead uniformed men.

At first we reported five officers killed, a figure that in the course of the afternoon was increasing  to be seven victims, which has not been confirmed or denied by the authorities, who have kept a complete silence on the subject , from the Ministry of Public Security to the Attorney General's Office of the State.

Similarly, the possibility that these events are due to the series of conflicts between organized crime groups operating south of Sonora has not been ruled out, since at the end of July there was a great controversy in the port when a group of municipal agents from Guaymas allegedly "handed over " some young men to an alleged group of rival assassins.