No less than 19 individuals, together with 4 Guatemalans, have died in a conflict between two drug cartels within the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, the Mexican Safety Secretariat reported on Monday (01.07.2024).
The incident occurred final Friday within the municipality of La Concordia, close to the border with Guatemala, the place violence has worsened lately.
In a cargo truck “14 males had been discovered murdered by firearm, two extra within the cabin, two on the aspect and yet another roughly 100 meters away,” mentioned a bulletin from the division, which had initially reported 20 deaths.
In keeping with the safety authorities, preliminary investigations point out that it was a “confrontation” between the Sinaloa cartel, one of the crucial highly effective within the nation, and one other legal gang recognized because the “Chiapas and Guatemala cartel.”
Authorities say that each legal teams are “preventing for management of the border space.”
“No less than 4 of the deceased had been discovered to be carrying identification issued by the Guatemalan authorities,” the assertion added.
The report states that within the space of the occasions, numerous arrests have been manufactured from males linked to “drug trafficking, human trafficking, and arms trafficking.”
The presence of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel, one other highly effective legal gang that’s preventing for territory with the Sinaloa group, has additionally been detected in that a part of Mexico.
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