Post by peachy on May 10, 2023 22:12:47 GMT
But there are no bad guys at the border, right libs? Are you going to call to defund the border patrol too, idiots?
www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-01/mexico-cartel-attack-u-s-border
MEXICO CITY — Mexican security forces on Sunday killed seven more members of a presumed cartel assault force that rolled into a town near the Texas border a day earlier and staged an hourlong attack, officials said, bringing the death toll to at least 20.
The Coahuila state government said in a statement that law enforcement officers aided by helicopters were still chasing remnants of the force that arrived in a convoy of pickup trucks and attacked the City Hall of Villa Union on Saturday.
Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme said late Sunday afternoon that authorities had determined the casualty count from the gun battles stood at 14 assailants dead and four police officers killed. He said two civilians also were slain by gunmen after being abducted.
The governor said six more officers were wounded, as were four young people who had been taken by the attackers.
The reason for the military-style attack also remained unclear Sunday. Cartels have been vying for control of smuggling routes in northern Mexico, but there was no immediate evidence that a rival group had been targeted in Villa Union.
The governor said the armed group — at least some in military-style garb — stormed the town of 3,000 residents in a convoy of trucks, attacking local government offices and prompting state and federal forces to intervene. Bullet-riddled trucks left abandoned in the streets bore the initials CDN — for Cartel of the Northeast.
Several of the gunmen stole vehicles as they fled and kidnapped residents to help guide them on dirt tracks out of town, the governor said. At least one of the stolen vehicles was a hearse headed for a funeral, according to the newspaper Zocalo of Saltillo.
The town is about 35 miles southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, and 12 miles from the town of Allende — site of a 2011 massacre involving the Zetas cartel in which officials say 70 died.
www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-01/mexico-cartel-attack-u-s-border
MEXICO CITY — Mexican security forces on Sunday killed seven more members of a presumed cartel assault force that rolled into a town near the Texas border a day earlier and staged an hourlong attack, officials said, bringing the death toll to at least 20.
The Coahuila state government said in a statement that law enforcement officers aided by helicopters were still chasing remnants of the force that arrived in a convoy of pickup trucks and attacked the City Hall of Villa Union on Saturday.
Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme said late Sunday afternoon that authorities had determined the casualty count from the gun battles stood at 14 assailants dead and four police officers killed. He said two civilians also were slain by gunmen after being abducted.
The governor said six more officers were wounded, as were four young people who had been taken by the attackers.
The reason for the military-style attack also remained unclear Sunday. Cartels have been vying for control of smuggling routes in northern Mexico, but there was no immediate evidence that a rival group had been targeted in Villa Union.
The governor said the armed group — at least some in military-style garb — stormed the town of 3,000 residents in a convoy of trucks, attacking local government offices and prompting state and federal forces to intervene. Bullet-riddled trucks left abandoned in the streets bore the initials CDN — for Cartel of the Northeast.
Several of the gunmen stole vehicles as they fled and kidnapped residents to help guide them on dirt tracks out of town, the governor said. At least one of the stolen vehicles was a hearse headed for a funeral, according to the newspaper Zocalo of Saltillo.
The town is about 35 miles southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, and 12 miles from the town of Allende — site of a 2011 massacre involving the Zetas cartel in which officials say 70 died.