An armed confrontation recorded in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, left ten dead, including a minor, the mayor of said municipality said on Monday, Santos Gonzalez Tinder.
The city manager wondered how no state authority in Sonora or the state of Baja Californianot even Mexico’s government security agencies were aware of the raid by a convoy with 50 vans full of hitmen.
When the incident occurred on Saturday, the State Secretariat of Public Safety and the Attorney General’s Office in Sonora reported only eight dead and twelve injured, reserving the rest of the innocent victims due to the violence that began with an armed confrontation in Coahuila. in the state of Baja California.
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Attacks continued in the city of Luis B. Sánchez and the city of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, bordering the United States.
In a broadcast on his personal Facebook profile, González Yescas revealed the death of a minor, for which he regretted that no state or federal security agency had noticed the incursion of a convoy with more than 50 vansfull of armed people.
“It’s something incredible that in a city like the police station Luis B. Sanchez This happened and nobody noticed the passage of the convoy, how can we not notice it? But I assure you that we are also collaborating in the whole investigation, why and where they entered, three criminals were killed and, unfortunately, a minor also died in Luis B. Sánchez,” said Mayor González Yescas.
The municipal president also explained that, after the armed attacks in the towns of the Río Colorado between Sonora and Baja California, the convoy of assassins also entered the border city of San Luis, which borders with Arizona, to attack some shops, where drug dealers you sell drug
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Disputes between the “Mayos” and the “Chapitos”
Journalists have revealed that in San Luis Río Colorado, in addition to selling drugs, these “small shops” also operate small clandestine casinos with gaming machines that are exploited by criminal groups with the permission of the authorities.
sources of Attorney General of the Republic confirmed the death of a minor and two other children who were injured in the clash, which is why the case is already being investigated.
At the moment, the ministerial authorities of the State and of the Federation have reported 50 seizures of vehicles, land and water, in addition to the arrest of eight suspects, four during the clash, two in the following hours, and two people arrested in five house searches derived from the search ; as well as the guarantee of assault rifles, handguns, ballistic vests, a grenade and magazines.
It has emerged that the violence generated in the limits of Sonora and Baja California, on the border with Arizona, is caused by a confrontation on the square over the transfer of drugs, weapons, money and people between Mexico and the United States.
According to local media, the dispute would be underway between two cells of the Sinaloa or Pacific Cartel, that of the “Mayos”, linked to Ismael Mayo Zambada, against theCapitos’ connected with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
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