Five state police officers, including a woman, were killed in an ambush by a criminal group while traveling in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, in southern Chiapas, according to official sources.
The officers of Unit 23057 were traveling in the Sabinalito Ejido, located less than 10 kilometers from the border with Guatemala, when armed individuals threw a grenade at them and then set fire to the state police patrol car.
According to security sources, the victims were identified as Deputy Inspector Guillermo Cortés, and police officers Jesús Sánchez, Joel Martínez, Brenda Lizbeth Toalla, and Pedro Hernández.
Morena Governor Eduardo Ramírez stated during an event that he will not allow this incident to be a prelude to the return of shootings and mass murders in Chiapas.
“I have issued instructions to both the Secretary of Security and the Pakal Immediate Reaction Force, and I also spoke with the Prosecutor, because I will not allow acts of violence to return to Chiapas. That’s over. There will be a strong and decisive response to what happened today. We are not afraid,” he said, shouting at times.
The state Public Security Secretariat reported that it has sent more than 1,000 members of the State Preventive Police (PEP), as well as the new Pakal police group, to reinforce security in the area.
The State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) also ordered a deployment to find those responsible.
The southern region of Chiapas, where Frontera Comalapa is located, has been at the center of a drug dispute for years between criminal groups such as the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel over the route used for the entry and exit of drugs, as well as weapons, and migrant trafficking.
Just at the beginning of this year, the interim mayor of Frontera Comalapa (PVEM), José Antonio Villatoro, was arrested for his ties to organized crime in this mountainous area.
Days later, City Council member Marli Trejo Posada boasted that physical activity could be carried out in the city, but in photographs, she appeared surrounded by state agents with long weapons.
Source: expreso
