19 die as police, armed gang clash

Mexican authorities said that at least 19 people died in clashes involving armed men and security forces in the gang-plagued northwestern state of Sinaloa, where homicides have spiked dramatically following the capture and extradition to the United States of convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The violence began with a shooting om Friday that killed two men near a department store in the town of Villa Union, 24 kilometers southeast of the beach resort of Mazatlan.