Bodies dumped as gunmen target top cop
Mexico’s organised crime violence burst into full view yesterday, as police in the north-central state of Zacatecas reported finding 14 bodies dumped on a roadside near the city of Fresnillo and gunmen shot up an armoured vehicle carrying Mexico City’s police chief.
Zacatecas state police gave no further details, but photographs of the dirt road where the bodies were found showed the corpses dumped in a pile, wrapped in blankets and bound with tape.
The report came as two dozen gunmen ambushed the Mexico City police chief on the capital’s most iconic boulevard, firing on his vehicle with .50-calibre sniper rifles and grenades. The ambush left chief Omar Garcia Harfuch wounded with three bullet impacts and shrapnel. Two members of his security detail were killed, as was a woman who happened to be driving by.
A day earlier in the state of Sinaloa, state police said they had found the bodies of seven men wearing military-style clothing in a pickup truck in a rural area near the city of Culiacan. In another area nearby, police found a further nine bodies. Two bulletriddled vehicles were found nearby. There was a series of shootouts there on Thursday.
AP