5 law enforcement officials died Monday after they had been ambushed by an armed group within the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala, native officers stated.
The assault occurred within the city of Frontera Comalapa, the place the Chiapas state law enforcement officials had been on patrol after they had been ambushed.
“Members of the state police were attacked and ambushed,” the governor of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramirez, stated on social media.
Ramirez recognized the slain officers as Guillermo Cortés Morales, Jesús Sánchez Pérez, Joel Martínez Pérez, Brenda Lizbeth Toalá Blanco and Pedro Hernández Hernánde.
The native Safety Secretariat stated it had deployed greater than 1,000 officers to “attend to the situation and guarantee security in the area.”
Chiapas State Governor Eduardo Ramirez
The company additionally shared a picture of the slain officers’ charred patrol automobile after it was utterly engulfed in flames on a roadway.
Later, the company introduced on social media that they had arrested a person in connection to the murders. Authorities stated the suspect was hiding within the weeds about half a mile from the crime scene, carrying an AK-47 rifle and a backpack with army uniforms. Officers didn’t instantly give details about different attainable suspects.
In latest months, Chiapas has been shaken by a bloody turf battle between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Era cartel — the nation’s two strongest legal organizations. Chiapas has been described by the InSight Crime suppose tank as “a major smuggling hub of both drugs and migrants.”
In December, authorities stated they recovered greater than 30 our bodies from pits in Chiapas.
