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Several clashes involving Mexican security forces since last Sunday in and around Monterrey, Nuevo Leon has left six dead and 18 wounded.
- An ambush of Mexican Federal agents by armed suspects in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon has left one agent dead and four wounded. Reports say the Policia Federal were traveling along avenida Guadalajara when they were fired on. The shooting prompted a pursuit through the streets of Residencial La Noria and ended at a pharmacy near the intersection of avenidas Mexico and Guadalajara, where the four agents were hurt in the pursuit. A civilian working at a nearby garage was also wounded in the crossfire.
- Three Mexican Federal agents and one civilian female were injured in a car accident in Monterrey Tuesday. A Policia Federal unit was sent to to investigate a reports of a grenade detonation near the intersection of avenidaa Pablo Gonzalez Garza and Gonzalitos when the driver of the federal pickup truck ran into a Dodge Stratus.
- A shootout between armed suspects and local security forces left three unidentified suspects dead and a fourth under arrest in Santa Cataria, Nuevo Leon Tuesday. The shooting took place near a shopping mall on Avenida Luis Donaldo Colosio. Reports say three vehicles were abandoned at the scene along with an unreported number of rifles. The shooting started when suspects refused to stop when ordered by an element of the Gruppo de Base de Operaciones Mixtas, a mixed detachment of municipal state and federal police.
- Mexican Army units were reported on patrol in the Monterrey city center early Tuesday. Reports say Mexican soldiers were searching for suspects and stolen vehicles. Soldiers conducted searches of local businesses. No action and no arrests were reported.
- A presumed 40mm grenade was launched at a bus stop in Monterrey Monday wounding five civilians. The attack took place near the corner of Avenida Garza Sada and Calle Juventino Rosas in the Caracol colony. Among the wounded was Lucinda Sepulveda Garcia is director-elect of Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Universidad Autonomous de Nuevo Leon (UANL), and municipal police officer Maria Patricia Beltran. Reprots say the grenade was likely launched from a nearby pedestrian bridge. The detonation site was near a pair of Monterrey municipal police patrol vehicles deployed as a checkpoint.
- A direct assault launched by armed suspects killed one civilian and wounded six others in the town of China, Nuevo Leon Sunday. Armed suspects entered the town at about 1515 hrs, firing assault rifles at a pickup truck the deceased victim had been driving. Residents said the assault was directed at anyone in the suspects' sights. Reports say the shooting was confined to the city center.
- An unidentified suspect was shot to death by elements of a Mexican Army unit in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon early Monday morning. The unit signalled the driver of a stolen Nissan sedan to pull over when the suspects fired on the soldiers near the intersection of avenidas Santo Domingo and Constitucion between the Balcones del Mezquital and Garcia Mireles colonies.
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