Five police officers died on Monday after being caught up in an armed group in the south of the Mexican state of ChiapasOn the border with Guatemala, local officials said.
The attack occurred in the city of Frontera Comalapa, where the police of the state of chiapas were on patrol when they were caught.
“State police members were attacked and caught up,” the governor of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramirez, said on social networks.
Ramire identified the officers killed Like Guillermo Moral Cortes, Jesús Sánchez Pérez, Joel Martínez Pérez, Brenda Lizbeth Toalá Blanco and Pedro Hernández Hernánde.
The local security secretariat said that it had deployed more than 1,000 agents to “take care of the situation and guarantee security in the region”.
The Governor of the State of Chiapas Eduardo Ramirez
The agency too Shared an image From the carbonized patrol vehicle of officers killed after being completely swallowed up by flames on a roadway.
Later, the agency Announced on social networks They had arrested a man as part of the murders. The authorities said the suspect was hiding in the weeds about half a thousand crime scene, wearing an AK-47 rifle and a backpack with military uniforms. Officials did not immediately give information on other possible suspects.
In recent months, Chiapas was shaken by a bloody war in the lawn between the Sinaloa cartel and the Cartel Jalisco New Generation – The two most powerful criminal organizations in the country. Chiapas has been described by the Insight crime reflection group as “a driver of drug smuggling and migrants”.
In December, the authorities said they had recovered Over 30 bodies Chiapas pits.