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| Mexican security forces bag 9 bad guys |
| 2011-10-17 |
| For a map, click here. For a map of Nuevo Leon, click here. Nine armed suspects were killed gunfights with Mexican security forces in northern Nuevo Leon Friday and Saturday, according to Mexican news accounts. Late Friday night a Mexican Army unit encountered armed suspects at about 115 kilometers on the Monterrey-Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas highway, killing three and detaining four. A few hours later at about 0030 hrs near the local Vallecillo- San Carlos road, a joint Mexican Army-Policia Federal operation located and then surrounded a "narco-ranch". The ensuing gunfight lasted 30 minutes. Three suspects were killed in the encounter as an unknown number of others suspects escaped in several vehicles from the cordon. Security forces then began to search the surrounding area resulting in two more firefights which killed three more armed suspects. Reports say field interrogations revealed that the ranch was being used by a criminal drug gang as a base of operations. At least 200 gang members resided at the base. No contraband was reported seized in the aftermath. Friday and Saturday's fighting took place in the same area where last week three Polica Federal agents were killed and another four were wounded. To read the Rantburg report on the San Carlos-Vallecillo encounter last week, click here The Mexican leftist weekly Proceso reported on a Sunday night posting that as many as 18 unidentified individuals were killed in encounters between Mexican security forces and criminal gangs in the area between Friday night and Sunday. The publication did not provide details. Neither SEDENA nor SSP provided additional details on their websites on the recently concluded operation. |
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