The elected mayors of Mazatlán and San Ignacio, Estrella Palacios Dominguez and Octavio Bastidas Manjarrez, respectively, were assaulted and robbed of their trucks this Monday, October 7, on the Mazatlán-Culiacán maxi highway, which has become a risk for drivers due to the wave of violence in Sinaloa.
According to reports from the officials themselves, the assaults occurred at different times on the morning of Monday, October 7. Both were heading to Culiacán to participate in a meeting of municipal presidents along with the governor, Rubén Rocha Moya.
Mayor Estrella Palacios said that the assault occurred at approximately 12:00 hours at the height of the Quilá bridge, located about 72 kilometers south of Culiacán, just a few kilometers before reaching the toll booth of the municipality of Costa Rica.
She said that she was traveling with three companions in a white 2021 Tahoe pickup truck, when she was suddenly intercepted by an armed group traveling in a red pickup truck without license plates.
They robbed her of her truck and left the users abandoned on the highway, while the criminals fled to the capital.
Hours before the robbery, Mayor Estrella Palacios shared a video on her social networks, in which she wished everyone a good start to the week. “We continue working with great enthusiasm to begin our government that we will do together starting November 1,” she said.
Later, the mayor of San Ignacio, a municipality bordering Durango, spread on social networks that he had been assaulted and robbed of his vehicle, a white four-door Silverado pickup truck.
He said that when he was passing through the Eldorado municipality, about 70 kilometers south of Culiacán, he was intercepted by an armed group that forced him to hand over the vehicle and then escape towards the capital of Sinaloa.
On that same stretch of the Mazatlán-Culiacán maxi highway, the driver of a trailer avoided having his vehicle stolen, but in his attempt he accelerated and ended up overturned kilometers ahead.
The incident occurred at kilometer 101 near the municipality of Elota, which borders Culiacán. The driver not only avoided having his vehicle stolen, but also his own life, since he dodged gunfire and pursuit by the criminals.
After the report to 911, rescue personnel arrived and with a crane they rescued the tractor-trailer from a property where it had become stuck.
The wave of violence in Sinaloa continues, and this morning two charred bodies of men were found in an agricultural field in the municipality of Eldorado, next to the capital of Culiacán.
The bodies were near a grocery store, next to the houses of day laborers. The bodies were separated from each other by a distance of four meters. The Forensic Medical Service collected them and transferred them to the Culiacán amphitheater.
Source: elfinanciero
