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A hat tip to El Blog del Terror for the additional details. Concurrent reports say three unconfirmed have died in shootouts in Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
Multiple shootouts between Mexican drug gangs, and gangs and elements of the Mexican military in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, have claimed at least one dead, according to Mexican and English language press and internet reports.
However, internet reports say at least three have died total.
An operation by a detachment of Mexican Marines raided a location near an international bridge leading into the US, where the brother of the Gulf Cartel chief, Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, maintained a safe house.
Current Mexican reports say that Gullen was either arrested or wounded in the encounter, but no confirmation has been released by Mexican authorities.
The action took place at about 1430 hrs in the Las Arboledas in the Lauro Villar district by the Puente Internacional Veteranos. An earlier shootout took place at around noon in the Expo Fiesta Sur where a group of armed suspects said to be Gulf Cartel members attacked a safe house maintained by Los Zetas. No other information is available of the result of that attack.
A shootout took place near the Matamoros police station minutes later where a Gulf Cartel convoy encountered Mexican Marine convoy. Reports say the Gulf Cartel then withdrew to the Las Arboledas where the fighting intensified where a marine helicopter provided sniper support.
The shootout intensified when both criminal gangs and the military received reinforcements, and reports are at least three died, two unidentified Gulf Cartel members and one marine.
Mexican reports hint at a possible fourth battle between the Mexican Army and criminal gangs, near the intersection of Calle Jesus Guevara and Avenida Pedro Cardenas by the used car dealer El Pozo south of the city. A unidentified man was reported killed in this action.