It was the third shooting confrontation in less than two months between Mexican Army soldiers and the gunmen of the Tropa del Infierno, which have caused a total of 32 deaths and at least six soldiers and police officers injured.
Reynosa (Mexico), Aug 21 (EFE) .- A confrontation in the city of Nuevo Laredo (border with US) between military and members of the “Troop of Hell”, the armed arm of the Northeast Cartel, left a balance wounded military man bullet and eight suspected criminals killed, informed this Friday to Efe a spokesman for the Mexican Police.
“Military personnel requested support because they were being attacked on Boulevard Luis Donaldo Colosio on the corner of Paseo Loma Real,” said the source of the state Police of the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.
The clash with large caliber weapons between the military and the civilian gunmen took place on Thursday night.
It was the third shooting confrontation in less than two months between Mexican Army soldiers and the gunmen of the Tropa del Infierno, which have caused a total of 32 deaths and at least six soldiers and police officers injured.
“When the support for the soldiers arrived, a van was observed with people killed inside and firearms,” added the spokesman for the state police.
The forensic services and experts counted eight men killed in two vehicles.
The dead men wore cloned military clothing as if it were from the Mexican Navy, a military organization that no longer operates in Nuevo Laredo.
Several long weapons were found inside the vehicles. It was also reported that another van with gunmen managed to escape.
BINATIONAL INVESTIGATION
An investigation carried out in Houston, Texas (USA), by the Office of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF, for its acronym in English) documented that the long weapons that have recently been seized from the Tropa del Infierno they were bought in an armory in that city.
Documents from the Houston Federal Court in Efe’s possession specify that Israel Chapa Jr., a young man who is currently detained in Houston, admitted to the AFT that he had sold several weapons to Victor Camacho, an American who lives in Brownsville, Texas.
The weapons purchased by Camacho were sold in Nuevo Laredo to members of the Northeast Cartel, including two Barrett .50 caliber submachine guns and one of them ended in the shooting registered in the town of Villa Unión, Coahuila, where 24 people died.
The attack on the Villa Unión Police took place on November 30, 2019 and about 150 hitmen from the Hell’s Troop participated with a total of 24 dead, including 18 suspected criminals, two civilians and four policemen.
2019 was the most violent year for Mexico since there is a record of 34,608 malicious homicides and 1,012 femicides.
In the first seven months of the year, the country registered 20,494 intentional homicides.
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