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Note: I am writing a post about Acuna, Coahuila...which I was going to combine with this post but I think it should be on its own. If Anyone has heard of or has knowledge of violence happening around the 17th of September please email me @ laverdad_52@yahoo.com.mx Thank you, Paz, Chivis
Note: I am writing a post about Acuna, Coahuila...which I was going to combine with this post but I think it should be on its own. If Anyone has heard of or has knowledge of violence happening around the 17th of September please email me @ laverdad_52@yahoo.com.mx Thank you, Paz, Chivis
Shootout results in the death of 4 who may be prison escapees
Authorities of Coahuila informed that a confrontation occurred in the colonia San Joaquín and another confrontation in the colonia Guillén.
State and federal forces are conducting a extensive security operative by land and air in this municipality and it surroundings after registering two shootouts that left four armed men dead.
The confrontation between police and gunmen occurred Monday afternoon in different points of the city. In one of the confrontations, agents of the Special Tactics and weapons Group (GATES) killed four suspects and confiscated a car and a pick up.
The spokesman on topics of safety of Coahuila, Sergio Sisbeles Alvarado, said that the first confrontation was around 12:00 hrs in the colonia San Joaquin, southwest of the city, where the GATES identified a black Pick up Dodge Ram, where four suspects were boarding it, however the men evaded arrest by escaping through vacant lots and buildings on foot..
Later, an operative to search for the suspects took place but failed.
One hour later, at 13:10 hrs, on the high way Perez Trevino and Francisco Marquez, in the colonia Guillen, another confrontation took place, where the agents killed four men that were on a white Pontiac.
Sisbeles added that the police found 800 doses of marijuana and “crack”, 2 long weapons, a rifle and an Uzi in the Pontiac where the suspects were killed.
He also said that the police are obtaining the fingerprints of the murder victims to determine if they are some of the 131 fugitives of the penitentiary of Piedras Negras, last Monday, Sept 17.
As for the surveillance operative, he précised that the elements of Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA), Secretariat of Marines- Army of Mexico (SEMAR), GATES, municipal and federal police, are who are doing it.
He also stated that the government of the state continues to amplify efforts to guarantee security to the families of Piedras Negras.
Sources: Universal and Zocalo
