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Five constabulary officers died Monday aft they were ambushed by an equipped radical successful the confederate Mexican authorities of Chiapas, connected the borderline with Guatemala, section officials said.
The onslaught happened successful the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, wherever the Chiapas authorities constabulary officers were connected patrol erstwhile they were ambushed.
"Members of the authorities constabulary were attacked and ambushed," the politician of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramirez, said connected societal media.
Ramirez identified the slain officers arsenic Guillermo Cortés Morales, Jesús Sánchez Pérez, Joel Martínez Pérez, Brenda Lizbeth Toalá Blanco and Pedro Hernández Hernánde.
The section Security Secretariat said it had deployed much than 1,000 officers to "attend to the concern and warrant information successful the area."
Five constabulary officers died Monday aft they were ambushed by an equipped radical successful the confederate Mexican authorities of Chiapas, connected the borderline with Guatemala, section officials said.
Chiapas State Governor Eduardo Ramirez
The bureau besides shared an image of the slain officers' charred patrol conveyance aft it was wholly engulfed successful flames connected a roadway.
Later, the bureau announced connected societal media they had arrested a antheral successful transportation to the murders. Authorities said the fishy was hiding successful the weeds astir fractional a mile from the transgression scene, carrying an AK-47 firearm and a backpack with subject uniforms. Officials did not instantly springiness accusation astir different imaginable suspects.
In caller months, Chiapas has been shaken by a bloody turf warfare betwixt the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel — the country's 2 astir almighty transgression organizations. Chiapas has been described by the InSight Crime deliberation vessel arsenic "a large smuggling hub of some drugs and migrants."
In December, authorities said they recovered more than 30 bodies from pits successful Chiapas.
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