Translated for Borderland Beat from a Notinfomex.org article by Otis B Fly-Wheel
Ambush leaves 5 Aquila Auto defensas dead and 8 injured
The PGJE of the State of Michoacán has initiated a preliminary investigation in relation to violent events which took place this morning in the community of Huahua. In the municipality of Aquila where five men lost their lives who were identified as communitarios.
According to the testimony given to ministerial personnel , at approximately 10:00 am on Sunday , a group of 13 men who were identified as communitarios ( autodefensas ) performed a patrol on board a pick up truck and during the patrol passed through a gap that lead to a ranch "El Socorro " , they were ambushed by unknown individuals who withdrew from the location after the attack.
According to the testimony given to ministerial personnel , at approximately 10:00 am on Sunday , a group of 13 men who were identified as communitarios ( autodefensas ) performed a patrol on board a pick up truck and during the patrol passed through a gap that lead to a ranch "El Socorro " , they were ambushed by unknown individuals who withdrew from the location after the attack.
Resulting from this attack were five men dead at the ambush site , plus 8 that received various injuries , the wounded men were channeled to different health care institutions to receive treatment for their wounds.
Agents of the public prosecutors office assisted criminal justice experts , who went to the ambush site to perform the corresponding proceedings and order the removal of the bodies, which were transferred to the forensic medical service for autopsy.
Ministerial staff are already conducting research which will clarify the incident. The place of ambush is located in a rural mountain area in the proximity of the limits of Aquila's municipality with that of Coalcoman being not far across the mountains of Arteaga and Tumbiscatio , where the perpetrators of the ambush fled.
After what happened in the high lands , in the micro region of HuaHua there persists an atmosphere of fear and uneasiness despite the large presence of Federal Armed Forces.
This Huahua ambush is the second to occur against the coastal auto defensas of Michoacán. The first happened on the 16th of December on the coastal road in the vicinity of the villages of La Placita and Xayakalan.
When hit men fired at a van which they believed carried the Commander of the Municipal Police of the Nahua people of Ostula, however his life was saved because he changed vehicles.
The auto defensas killed in the ambush include the commander of Huahua autodefensas Rafael Meraz " El Chopo " among other.
Original article in Spanish at Notinfomex.org