MEXICO CITY, June 26 (Reuters) – Six police officers were killed in a shootout in northern Mexico in which assailants outnumbered law enforcement, Nuevo state officials said on Sunday. Leon.
The assailants used high-caliber weapons and boarded 10 armored trucks in an ambush around 3 a.m. Sunday near the border with the United States, Nuevo Leon’s security minister said.
“Unfortunately, six members of our unit lost their lives in the line of duty,” the minister said in a statement, adding that the police had acted “heroically”.
Four other officers were injured and are receiving medical treatment, he added.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who inherited a country plagued by a high homicide rate, is struggling to stem gang violence.
The recent murder of two Jesuit priests and a tourist guide in the northern state of Coahuila was condemned by Pope Francis, who lamented “so many murders in Mexico”. (Report Lizbeth Diaz, French version Benjamin Mallet)
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