An attack leaves at least 3 dead and 10 injured in Mexico

2023-07-12 08:05:06

At least Three dead and 10 injured left an attack with explosives against agents of the Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday of the State of Jalisco, in western Mexico, informed the Governor of the region, Enrique Alfaro. The attack, against agents of the State Prosecutor’s Office and the Municipal Police, occurred in the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, located about 33 kilometers from the city of Guadalajara, capital of the state of Jalisco.

“Tonight, personnel from the Tlajomulco Prosecutor’s Office and Police suffered a cowardly attack with explosive devices, which preliminarily caused the death of three colleagues from the municipal police and the Prosecutor’s Office, as well as injured 10 people,” the state president said in a statement. message on social networks. “This is an unprecedented event that shows what these organized crime groups are capable of. This attack also represents a challenge against the Mexican state as a whole,” he added.

Alfaro pointed out that after the attack the Jalisco Security Cabinet “is in permanent session and the Prosecutor’s Office will continue to report as the investigations progress and the official data is confirmed.”

Several years, the state of Jalisco is experiencing a crisis of violence and insecurity due to the presence of organized crime groups such as the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG).

This Tuesday, the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) of Mexico reported that during the first half of the year six states concentrated almost half of the homicides in the country: Guanajuato, State of Mexico, Baja California, Jalisco, Chihuahua and Michoacán, which together totaled 7,226 of these crimes.

Mexico faces a violent wave in recent years. In 2022, a total of 30,968 intentional homicides were recorded, while in 2021 there were 33,308. Before they registered the two most violent years in its historyunder the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with 34,690 murder victims in 2019 and 34,554 in 2020.