MEXICO CITY, June 26 (Reuters) – Six police officers were killed in a shootout in northern Mexico in which assailants outnumbered law enforcement, Nuevo state officials said on Sunday. Leon.
The attackers used high-caliber weapons and boarded 10 armored trucks in an ambush near the border with the United States at 3 a.m. Sunday, the Nuevo Leon Department of Security said.
“Unfortunately, six members of our unit lost their lives in the line of duty,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that the police acted “heroically.”
Four other officers were injured and are receiving medical treatment, he added.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who inherited a country plagued by a high homicide rate, is struggling to stem gang violence.
The recent murder of two Jesuit priests and a tourist guide in the northern state of Coahuila was condemned by Pope Francis, who lamented “so many murders in Mexico”.
(Report Lizbeth Diaz, French version Benjamin Mallet)