SAN LUIS RÍO COLORADO – Intense armed confrontations between criminal groups that dispute the place for drug trafficking to the United States left at least eight dead and 15 injured in the border municipality of San Luis Río Colorado, northwest of Mexico, between Sonora and Baja California.
The Secretary of Public Security in Sonora (SSPS) reported that the clashes began in Baja California and that there were at least two clashes between the hitmen.
“At the scene of the confrontation, the state forces and members of the security committee seized a significant number of vehicles, weapons , tactical equipment, ammunition and 3 people, who have been made available to the Attorney General of the Republic”, reported the SSPS.
In the first exchange, three people died and four were injured.
“In later events, but apparently related to the first, r Five people died and eight were injured,” the agency added.
In total, there are eight deaths, 12 injured and three suspects detained and in various videos that have been broadcast on social networks the bursts of assault rifles and explosions can be heard, in addition to seeing at least 33 artillery trucks, many armored with heavily armed people entering the conflict zone.
Inhabitants of the region , which borders Arizona, affirm that the violence was unleashed by a dispute between two cells of the same Sinaloa cartel, that of “Los Chapitos” against “Los Rusos”, related to Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who are fighting through the square for the transfer of drugs, weapons, money and people between Mexico and the United States.
The first skirmishes occurred in the peasant community known as Estación Coahuila or Kilómetro 57, in Baja California, but the confrontations They continued to the town of Luis B. Sánchez.
There were also fatalities in the streets of San Luis Río Colorado, in addition to all the wounded and detainees being taken to hospitals in this border city , which have had to be guarded by the Mexican Army and the National Guard.
Security forces, state and federal troops, have arrived in the region to reinforce the operations, but due to fear and insecurity, the residents of the region have chosen to suspend their activities and take shelter in their homes.
These facts reflect the situation in Mexico that registered 57.308 homicides in