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| 4 civilians die, 15 cops wounded in ambushes in Torreon, Coahuila |
| 2011-03-04 |
| For a map, click here. A total of eight municipal police officers were wounded in an assassination attempt on a municipal police official in Torreon, Coahuila early Wednesday, according to Mexican press accounts. An additional seven municipal police officers were wounded in an attack on a substation in southern Torreon later that day. General Carlos Bibiano Villa Castillo, director of the Torreon municipal police corporation was riding with his security detail on the road to Mieleras at about 0500 hrs when armed suspects aboard several Ford Explorer SUVs fired on the convoy comprising two patrol pickup trucks and another armored vehicle presumably carrying the general. Of the eight wounded, two were seriously wounded but all were taken in for observation. No armed suspects were apparently wounded in the exchange of fire. General Villa Castillo was apparently not hurt in the attack. Elsewhere in Torreon, a subdelegation of the Seguridad Publica Municipal (DSPM) in Rincon La Merced colony was attacked by armed suspects wounding eight, including a nearby female passerby. The station was attacked by armed suspects aboard eight SUVs, who used small arms fire and hand grenades. General Villa Castillo also revealed Thursday an attack in Torreon on city officials near the intersection of Bulevar Revolucion and Calle Garcaa Carrillo Tuesday about 1915 hrs. The attack killed the four unidentified civilians who were riding aboard a Nissan Murano SUV. |
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