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A detachment of the Mexican Army fought off an attack by armed suspects in the Santiago municipality (county) Wednesday night leaving a toll of one armed suspect dead and contraband seized, according to Mexican news reports.
Also, a Mexican Federal agent patrol on the Monterrey-Saltillo, Coahuila highway arrested six suspected members of the Los Zeta criminal gang transporting weapons and drugs.
In Santiago municipality armed suspects riding aboard a Ford Lobo pickup truck fired on a Mexican Army patrol last night. Return fire killed one suspect and forced three others to abandon their vehicle and flee into the countryside.
Soldiers seized two AK-47 assault rifles, a 9mm pistol, a fragmentation grenade and ammunition for various weapons.
On he Saltillo, Coahuila-Monterrey highway, a patrol of the Mexican Policia Federal stopped a stolen Chevrolet Sonora heading towards Monterrey with six suspects aboard.
The six men told agents they were members of Los Zetas criminal group with orders to transport weapons, munitions drugs and other materiel to Monterrey.
A partial accounting of contraband seized include three AK-47 assault rifles, three AR-15 assault rifles, more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition, 67 magazines for various weapons, 3 handguns, 23 handgun magazines, a grenade launcher, a grenade, a grenade launching tube, a homemade silencer, packaged marijuana, crack cocaine, powdered cocaine,and other material.