Four Mexican federal police killed in ambush in Guerrero

  20 June 2017    Read: 1151
Four Mexican federal police killed in ambush in Guerrero
Gunmen ambushed Mexican federal police agents on Monday killing four and wounding seven in Guerrero, one of the country's states that is most plagued by drug-violence, the government said.
The agents were attacked during an operation in the municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, the federal attorney general's office said in a statement.

One criminal suspect was killed and three were wounded, the office said.

State authorities said soldiers and state police were searching for the gunmen. San Miguel Totolapan is a fiefdom of Los Tequileros, one of the bloodiest criminal gangs in Guerrero.

Violence has spiked in Guerrero over the past decade as a growing number of criminal gangs vie for control of crops of opium poppies and for drug-trafficking routes.

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