MEXICO CITY, Apr 5 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – At least 19 people were killed and one wounded, in a confrontation between alleged criminal groups in Mexico’s northern state of Chihuahua, authorities said.
The shootout was first reported at 6:35 p.m. local time (0030 GMT) on Friday, in the town of Chuhuichupa, in the municipality of Madera in western Chihuahua, the state attorney general’s office said in a statement.
Local police and soldiers who responded to the report found 18 people dead at the scene and two more injured, one of whom died later at hospital.
“The search for the armed men continues in the vicinity of the scene, while experts and investigators from the state attorney general’s office are searching the scene of events for evidence,” the statement said.
The small community where the shooting took place is located in the mountainous area near Chihuahua’s border with the state of Sonora, a region that has been the centre of a feud between rival drug cartels for control over trafficking routes, according to local authorities.
