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Five armed suspects were killed in two separate gunfights in Monterrey, Neuvo Leon, and government offices in Santa Catarina were attacked with an unidentified explosive device Tuesday night.
- City offices of Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon were attacked by armed suspects using an unidentified explosive device Wednesday night. A building housing the Santa Catarina Secretaria de Finanzas y Tesoreria y Direccion de Patrimonios was hit by at least one detonation. Damaged was limited to two civilian vehicles and to glass in the building.
No one was reported hurt in the attack. Nuevo Leon state police agents responding to the scene would not speculate if the device was homemade or if it was a grenade.
- Mexican security forces killed two armed suspects and one civilian was wounded in the crossfire in a gunfight in Monterrey Thursday.
Agents in the Nuevo Leon Secretaria de Seguridad Publica del Estado were patrolling on Calle Heroes del 47 in the Madero colony when armed suspects aboard a Jeepo SUV fired on them.
The gunfire exchanged was followed by a pursuit which ended on Calle Julian Villareal where three suspects were killed by police gunfire.
Shortly afterwards an SUV which was apparently another element of the suspects' convoy, dropped off a suspect who was immediately captured by police agents.
Weapons, the Jeep SUV and tactical gear were seized by police agents.
- Three armed suspects were killed by a group of Reaccion Inmediata which included a unit of the Mexican Army, after the suspects initiated a firefight with security forces in San Nicholas de las Garza early Thursday morning.
The security unit was patrolling near the intersection of calles Juan Pablo II and Lopez Mateos in the Bosques del Nogal colony when they were fired on by armed suspects travelling in a convoy aboard two vehicles.
A subsequent pursuit ended up in the storage yard of a steel company where the armed suspects attempted to abandon their vehicles. All three were killed by security forces' gunfire before they could get away.
Following the exchange, soldiers seized two rifles, one handgun, weapons magazines, and the two vehicles.
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