A car weapon was left outside a police station in the northern Mexican city of Acambaro, according to lawyers in the violence-wracked state of Guanajuato on Thursday.
They said another explosion, seemingly a second vehicle weapon, occurred in the nearby village of Jerecuaro. Although no one was hurt, the impact of that minute fire was enough to eject a building’s stone roof, blacken nearby storefronts, and set a police patrol pickup truck.
The nearly simultaneous assaults in two towns located a half-hour apart gave rise to the presence of drug cartels, which have been engaged in terrible turf battles for years in Guanajuato.
One resident who witnessed the aftereffects of the explosion in Acambaro claimed that one of the injured was a girl and her daughter who were waiting for a vehicle. Prior to this, government claimed that all three of the injured were police officers.
A person and a child were about to board the school bus, and the lady was also severely hurt, according to shopkeeper Francisca Acevedo. ” They took her away in an emergency”.
Acevedo said “it was a great explosion, quite strong. We believed a trees had fallen in the house’s top.
In a separate strike in Guerrero state, two municipal police officers were killed and four were hurt in a huge fight with suspected medicine gang militants who were equipped with three bulletproof cars, a machine gun, and what appeared to be bombs dropped by drones.
Men afterwards killed 14 of the intruders, three soldiers were wounded in the running fight.
Despite the crime, recently inaugurated President Claudia Sheinbaum pledged to continue the “hugs, no guns” view of her father. Sheinbaum said Thursday she has ordered the army” not to have clashes” with the organizations.
” We are not going to transfer to a battle against the narcos”, Sheinbaum said.
But it takes two to go wrong, and her administration now appears to be locked up with cartels in a number of states, whether or not she likes it, just three weeks into her term in office.
According to images provided by the provincial authorities, the car bomb in Acambaro was so big it could lob parts of the burned-out car across a tree-lined middle band in the street outside the authorities place.
The strong explosion is said to have blown out outside houses ‘ windows and doors.
Since a gang used a vehicle weapon to kill a National Guard officer in Celaya in June 2023, Mexico’s authorities have experienced the most significant car-bomb attack since.
Four police officers and two civilians were killed in a planned set of seven road bombings launched by a drug gang in the neighboring state of Jalisco in July 2023. The improvised incendiary devices, or IEDs, had evidently been planted in pits dug in the roadway.
The use of car weapons, improvised explosive devices and bomb-dropping robots illustrate the exceedingly available, military-style challenge posed by the government’s drug cartels.
Sheinbaum has pledged to carry on Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s advice to avoid conflicts with drug cartel. López Obrador formally appealed to the groups to reduce violence before he left office on September 30 and offered training programs to combat the organizations ‘ shortage of young volunteers.
The policy did not significantly reduce Mexico’s generally high rates of murders.
Sheinbaum is also at risk of a significant increase in crime in the northeastern state of Sinaloa, the southwestern state of Chiapas, and in Guanajuato, the state with the highest murder rate in Mexico.
Sheinbaum, who took business Oct. 1, has said she will produce reducing violence in Guanajuato a goal, and said the strikes Thursday were being investigated.
But David Saucedo, a security researcher based in Guanajuato, said the state has failed to recognize the scope of the problem. Sheinbaum and other officers almost often respond to the violence with cliches like” the problem is being addressed” or “investigations are being carried out”
” In the federal and state governments, there is a sensitivity to talking about narco violence, because they think it may make a bad image for the country”, Saucedo said. ” Mexico now has a negative picture regarding crime and violence,” the truth is.
The Mexican authorities is dealing with a growing issue as drug cartels and assault become a problem in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
” There are tones within the state who believe that talking about narco violence would give the government of the United States more support than sending the army to fight the organizations,” he said.
The Santa Rosa de Lima syndicate, which has fought the state for years, is most likely to blame for the explosions on Thursday, according to Saucedo.
The criminal groups ‘ actions in Acambaro and Jerecuaro are intended as a message to the president and government that they will continue fighting for Guanajuato, he noted.
The problems appeared to precisely target police vehicles or offices.
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A car bomb explodes outside a police station in western Mexico, wounding 3 officers
In western Mexico, a car bomb detonates outside a police station, injuring three officers ( AP Image ).
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