Uruapan, Michoacán: Early Morning Of Attacks And Clashes Leaves Four Dead

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Neighbors managed to capture on video the moments of violence in Uruapan, Michoacán, which left several dead

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VIOLENCE IN MICHOACAN

The city of Uruapan, Michoacán, was the scene this morning of attacks and clashes between criminal groups.

The balance so far is four people dead and two more injured.

Neighbors of the Tejerías neighborhood made public some of the moments in which the antagonistic groups of organized crime faced gunfire. 

The residents recorded on videos, from different points, the roars of the assault rifles used by the criminal cells.

After several minutes, the inhabitants also reported that armed individuals had set a vehicle on fire.

At the scene, the authorities located the charred bodies of two people, they are still unidentified.

MORE DEAD IN MICHOACAN

The other point of that city located 110 kilometers from the Michoacan capital, armed individuals perpetrated an attack.

Witnesses point out that the armed group shot at four men who were talking on Salvador Allende street in the Jardines del Pedregal neighborhood.

At the scene, two of the victims died and the other two were seriously injured, for which they were transferred to a hospital in the region.

Uruapan is the second most violent municipality in Michoacán in terms of intentional homicides, just after the capital, Morelia.

Mayor Ignacio Campos Equihua blames the more than 15,000 avocado workers for the violence that floods the streets of his municipality.

He says that's because those farm workers "are all drug addicts."

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