In an argument between soldiers and alleged gangsters, 15 people have been killed in Mexico. According to the local security authorities, these included 14 armed civilians and a soldier.
The emergency services were informed on Tuesday by an emergency call on the presence of armed men near the southern Mexican city of Iguala, said the security spokesman for the state of Guerrero, Roberto Álvarez Heredia, with. When the soldiers reached the place Tepochica, they were attacked by the men.
In Mexico, there were nearly 36,000 murders last year. For years, the high rates of violence in the Latin American country are largely due to gangs involved in drug trafficking and kidnapping and extortion. These often have connections to local security forces.
In Iguala, five years ago, policemen abducted 43 students and handed them over to the crime syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The fate of the students is still unclear.
It was not until Monday that suspected members of the cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) attacked a convoy of police in the western state of Michoacán and killed 13 police officers. At first there was talk of at least 14 dead. In threatening messages left at the scene, the alleged perpetrators accused the police of being in cahoots with rival gangs.