Mexican authorities introduced {that a} police officer and three drug traffickers had been killed throughout armed clashes within the northeastern Mexican metropolis of Matamoros on the border with america.
The Tamaulipas state authorities wrote on social media that when the taking pictures occurred, police had been chasing a pickup truck transporting armed males.
“Three of them had been killed and one other escaped,” native authorities defined, noting that “a member of the Nationwide Guard” of the native safety service was killed.
In response to authorities, the state of Matamoros, situated on the border with Texas, is witnessing a confrontation between the “Clan del Golfo” gang and rival drug cartels akin to “Los Zetas.”
Tamaulipas is suffering from drug trafficking, and town of Matamoros serves as a transit level for migrants who sometimes cross the Rio Grande to america.
The realm’s roads are thought-about among the many most harmful within the nation as a consequence of “the danger of kidnapping and extortion by legal gangs”.
In March 2023, suspected Gulf relations kidnapped 4 Individuals, two of whom had been killed.
In January, some 32 migrants from Venezuela and Honduras had been kidnapped whereas touring by bus lower than 90 kilometers on the freeway connecting the cities of Reynosa and Matamoros.
Cartel-related violence in Mexico has left greater than 150,000 individuals lifeless and 100,000 lacking since 2006, when President Felipe Calderon (2006-2012) launched a navy marketing campaign towards drug trafficking.
