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Update 11.7.12 another confrontation last night, it follows the first post of the Monday conflict. Additionally reports of massive convoys of SEDENA and PFP into Piedras Negras.
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Conflicting reports with respect to number of dead. Lowest tally is 4 narcos (Zetas) and 2 federal police killed. The highest number is 4 narcos and 6 federal police. This inability to report numbers that are reported uniformly is a frustration and happens throughout Mexico, but Coahuila is one of the worse offenders.
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Likewise, the spokesman on Safety of Coahuila topics, Sergio Sisbeles, discounted the report that it was an attack to the hotel where the federal Police agents are staying. On his twiiter account he wrote- click to enlarge-:![]()
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Update 11.7.12 another confrontation last night, it follows the first post of the Monday conflict. Additionally reports of massive convoys of SEDENA and PFP into Piedras Negras.
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According to the daily news Vanguardia, the shootouts occurred after the Hotel Posada Rosa, where the officers of the Federal Police were being housed, was attacked with grenades by armed commandos, which caused mobilization in avenues such as San Luis, 16 de Septiembre and Lopez Mateos.
The daily news reports that it was informed off the record that a Federal Police vehicle was burned after the explosion of a grenade, which was parked in the headquarters in the Hotel Posada Rosa.
However, according to the diary Reforma, the person in charge of the office of the Secretariat of Public Safety of the state, Jose Gerardo Villarreal, said that the federal agents were attacked when they were driving through the avenue Colegio Militar and San Luis Street, in the colony Roma. After the attack, other confrontations and pursuits iitiated which lead to the zona centro (downtown), which caused the closure of the International Bridge.
An hour later he confirmed another death:
At 14:10 hours, the spokesman reported a new shootout in the colony Espejos.
Raziel Valdez, of the local channel RCG Noticias, showed images of the city after the confrontation of this morning. This is his version of the events:
Video translation
Armed gunmen attacked the headquarters of the Preventive Federal Police, located in the Hotel Posada Rosa, in the streets Lopez Mateos and Sinaloa of the colony Roma. At the time of this attack, students of the 5th technical secondary school had to be sheltered on the auditorium of that institution.
Based on data given by the Attorney General Office of the State, three suspects were killed and 2 federal police agents with minor injuries. The quick intervention of the officers of the Federal Police, Army and Navy during the confrontation resulted in scuessfully halting the attacks. These events were immediately reported so the International Bridges 1 and 2 were closed to avoid a major problem.
(Interviewing some people of an ice cream store about the shootout)
Woman: “I was sitting there”.
a man stuttering also says: “And I was sitting there”
Another woman: “She was scared because it happened very close”
Interviewer: “Did something happen to you?”
First woman: No, Thank God nothing happened to us”
In another place, a man says: “It was awful; I was in this pharmacy when it happened”
Reporter speaking: Images from Raziel Valdez - RCG Noticias - Piedras Negras Coahuila, Pedro Jaime Valdez
IMeanwhile, in Torreon guman attacked federal police installations such as the hotel they are using for housing:11.7.12 Update New Piedras violence:
Piedras Negras. - The Attorney General of Justice of the State and the Secretariat of Public Safety, reported that yesterday in Piedras Negras agents of the Special Arms and Tactics Groups (GATE), repelled the aggression with a fire weapon and killed a criminal.
The conflict began around 11:50 hours, agents of GATES were patrolling as part of the “Operation of search and localization of the Inmates fugitives of the Social Rehabilitation Center”, when crossing the Carranza Avenue and Primero de Mayo, were attacked with gunfire from a white vehicle model Ram 1500, with no license plate.
After repelling the attack, they killed a man of approximately 22 years of age and confiscated the mentioned vehicle, as well as a long gun caliber 5.56 Del Ton Inc. supplied with 21 cartridges and 8 tire spike strips.
Marines check commercial plaza
Almost at 19:10 hours, social network users reported the presence of armed men in a mall of this city.
Marines went to the location, in an investigation, which included inspecting businesses on the premises, however were unsuccessful
People on twitter, pointed out that the marines were guarding several spots of downtown, some witnesses indicated on the same social network that the authority was following several suspects with long guns.
Source: Vanguardia and Twitter
