Hidalgo, Mexico
Dozens of gunmen aboard about 30 vehicles they clashed with police of the Mexican state of Coahuila (North), in the municipality of Hidalgo, Located on the border with the United States, with a balance of three wounded, the Secretary of State for Security reported on Wednesday.
“In a security action, elements of the Police of Action and Reaction (PAR) prevented the entry of a group of armed civilians who on board more than 30 vans they were heading for the territory of Coahuila; after a confrontation with the security forces, the armed civilians fled course to Anáhuac, of the neighboring state of new Lion“The official statement said.
The events took place around 19:00 (00.00 GMT) on the borders between the border states of Coahuila and Nuevo León, On the federal highway linking the two states.
In the place known as the Gas Gap, the policies traveling in two vehicles noticed the presence of armed civilians, who launched an attack with firearms.
the attack was repelled by security agents and reinforced immediately by soldiers of the Secretariat of National Defense of the military regions of Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, as well as the Criminal Investigation Agency, the Civil Police of Coahuila, the Specialized Police and security forces from nearby municipalities, the statement added.
The confrontation left like balance 3 cash of the injured police as well as a unit of security forces damaged by the aggressors ’firearms.
“After the events, an operation was launched by land and air by corporations of the various government orders to find his whereabouts, which could last until Thursday,” concluded the statement of the Secretary of Security.
A similar event was recorded in December 2019, when a convoy of about 17 vans with assassins from the so-called “Troop of Hell”, the armed arm of the Northeast Cartel, (CDG the former Zetas ) penetrated in the municipality of Villa Union of Coahuila, and after a confrontation against security corporations and cash of the Army 22 people died.
The municipality of Vila Unión is a neighbor of Hidalgo and is located a few kilometers from the border with the United States.
Also on other occasions the assassins of the Troop Hell have raids the city of Pedres Negres and municipalities of Coahuila to retake this state they controlled since 2010, and due to internal disputes and divisions lost it.
Until 2012, they kept the border town of Pedres Negres as their main place to cross drugs to the United States, according to witnesses from Zetas leaders arrested in the United States and who confessed in several trials held in Texas cuts. EFE