Three separate armed attacks in Mexico on Monday left at least 22 people dead, including a dozen police officers, in regions across the country, authorities said.
In the largest of the attacks, unidentified attackers targeted a security patrol in Guerrero state’s municipality of Coyuca de Benitez, prosecutor Alejandro Hernandez said.
According to preliminary information, 11 members of the municipal police force were killed, he said, adding that the motive for the massacre was being investigated.
A senior state security official was traveling in the convoy when it was attacked, authorities said, without confirming media reports that he was murdered along with police bodyguards.
Security forces were later seen patrolling the area — where several lifeless bodies lay on the ground — as a police helicopter flew overhead.
Another attack, in the neighboring western state of Michoacan, left five people dead and two more injured, authorities said.
A group of gunmen attacked a brother of the mayor of the town of Tacambaro, according to the state prosecutor’s office.বিস্তারিত