The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a Mexican-US police station near the Mexican-US border, according to the State Department of Homeland Security.
Six police officers were killed in an exchange of fire in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon (north) as they were confronted with a large number of criminals who also had the advantage in terms of firepower, officials said.
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a Mexican-US police station near the Mexican-US border, according to the State Department of Homeland Security.
“Unfortunately, six members of our unit lost their lives on duty,” the ministry said in a press release, dismissing the “heroism” of the dead.
Four other police officers were injured and are being treated in hospital, according to the same source.
Center-left President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who inherited a country torn by a wave of violence attributed to organized crime, is finding it difficult to cope with the security crisis. The annual number of homicides is going to break a record this year.
The recent killing of two Jesuit priests and a tourist guide in the northern state of Coahuila has provoked a backlash from Pope Francis. “So many murders in Mexico,” said the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Mexico has recorded – according to official data – more than 340,000 murders and tens of thousands of disappearances since the so-called “war on drugs” was launched in December 2006, with the deployment of the armed forces inside the country.
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