MEXICO CITY — State police in central northern Mexico killed 13 alleged gang members in a shooting the same day, they arrested four people who were burying an officer and a relative of them, authorities said. on Friday.
The clash occurred Thursday night in the Vaqueros community in Rayon, the San Luis Potosi state security agency said in a statement.
Among the victims were 10 men and three women. Authorities did not report any state police injuries.
The San Luis Potosi state prosecutor’s office said weapons, tactical equipment and vehicles were seized. Thursday’s operation was the result of intelligence gathered after police arrested four people as they buried a state police member and a relative early Thursday, the office said.
In the southern state of Guerrero, authorities said on Friday they had found six bodies with bullet wounds and two heads nearby.
The Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said the remains were found near a burned and burned vehicle in the city of Quechultenango.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador continues to face higher rates of violence midway through his six-year term. The president has emphasized attacking violence with social programs rather than confronting the country’s powerful drug cartels.
“I fully believe that you cannot confront violence with violence, coercive measures are not enough, that is a conservative, authoritarian vision,” López Obrador said last month.
