- No authority was aware of the incursion of a convoy with 50 vans full of hitmen.

Confrontation in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico

A minor and nine adults die in a clash of hundreds of hitmen in Mexico

An armed confrontation between hitmen for drug control and the passage of people across the US border in San Luis Río Colorado, in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, has left ten dead, including a minor, reported Monday the mayor, Santos González Yescas.

Yescas wondered how it was possible that no state authority from Sonora or the state of Baja California, nor the security agencies of the Government of Mexico noticed the incursion of a convoy with 50 vans full of hit men.

On Saturday, when the incident took place, the State Public Security Secretariat and the Sonora Attorney General's Office only reported that there were eight deaths and twelve wounded, reserving the balance of innocent victims due to the violence that began with an armed confrontation. in Coahuila City, in the state of Baja California, and that continued with more problems in the town of Luis B. Sánchez and in the border city of San Luis Río Colorado, in Sonora.

"It is something incredible that in a town like the Luis B. Sánchez police station this has happened and that no one has noticed the passage of the convoy"

In a transmission on his personal Facebook profile, Yescas revealed the death of a minor, for which he regretted that no State or Federal security agency had noticed the raid of a convoy with more than 50 trucks, full of armed people.

"It is something incredible that in a town like the Luis B. Sánchez police station this has happened and that no one has noticed the passage of the convoy, how are we not going to notice? But I assure you that we are also collaborating throughout the investigation, why and where they entered, three criminals were killed and, unfortunately, a minor also died in Luis B. Sánchez", declared Mayor Santos González.

The municipal president also explained that after the armed attacks in the towns of the rural communities of the fertile agricultural valley that irrigates the delta of the Colorado River between Sonora and Baja California, the convoy of hitmen also entered the border city of San Luis, which adjoins with Arizona in the United States, to attack some stores, where drug dealers sell drugs.

The violence generated is due to a confrontation over the square for the transfer of drugs, weapons, money, and people between Mexico and the United States.

Reporters covering the police source in San Luis Río Colorado have revealed that, in addition to the sale of drugs, these "little stores" also operate small clandestine casinos with gaming machines that are exploited by criminal groups with the permission of the authorities.

Sources from the Attorney General of the Republic confirmed the death of a minor and two more children who were injured in the confrontation, for which the agent of the Federal Public Ministry brought the investigation into the case.

Currently, the ministerial authorities of the State and the Federation have reported 50 seized vehicles, land, and water, in addition to the arrest of eight suspects, four during the confrontation, two in the hours afterward, and two people arrested in five house searches derived from the research; as well as the seizure of assault rifles, short arms, ballistic vests, a grenade, and chargers.

It has transpired that the violence generated in the limits of Sonora and Baja California, on the border with Arizona is due to a confrontation over the square for the transfer of drugs, weapons, money, and people between Mexico and the United States, the dispute would be, according to local media, between two cells of the Sinaloa or Pacific Cartel, that of the "Mayos" (linked to Ismael Mayo Zambada) against the Chapitos (linked to Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán).

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