Six police officers were killed in northern Mexico

Gunmen have killed six police officers in a northern Mexican state where rival gangs are clashing over control of drug-trafficking routes, authorities said.

Initially, five police officers were killed while training at a sports center in Calera de Victor Rosales, the Zacatecas state government announced.

#UltimaHora @azucenau comando armedo emboscó al director y subdirector de Seguridad Pública en el municipio de #Calera en #Zacatecas lo dos murieron en el lugar ❌🚓👮‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/FsU33D5Ntb

— Reportero Ángel Martínez (🐤) (@JOSEANGELMART18) September 28, 2022

Two other police officers who arrived at the scene were also shot and one succumbed to his injuries, according to a state government press release.

The governor of Zacatecas, David Monreal, spoke of a “cowardly attack”.

Violence has continued to escalate in recent years in Zacatecas, with experts attributing the upsurge to the conflict between the Sinaloa and New Generation cartels of Jalisco over control of territory, part of the gold-bearing cocaine trafficking routes to the US.

In January, 10 bodies were found in a car abandoned in front of the governor’s palace in the state capital of Zacatecas.

🚨 Assassination of 6 policemen in Calera, Zacatecas. The agresión armada se registró cuando los policías realizaban ejercicio. Hasta el momento no official version of the facts pic.twitter.com/z1O6cww7He

— Ecodiario Zacatecas (@Ecodiariozac) September 28, 2022

Mexico has had more than 340,000 murders — the vast majority attributed to gangs — and at least 100,000 disappearances since the controversial “war on drugs” was declared with the deployment of the military inside the country in 2006.

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