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A contingent of 300 Mexican Federal police troops arrived in Ciudad Lerdo and Gomez Palacio, Durango Thursday night, deployed to reinforce Federal Police presence in nearby Torreon, Coahuila, say Mexican news reports.
An additional 200 Mexican Federal agents were deployed to Torreon, Coahuila in late July shortly after it was learned that federal prisoners and guards in the Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) Number Two in Gomez Palacio had been used at the alleged behest of prison officers to commit a series of massacres in Torreon.
The new deployment is probably the strongest Federal Police presence in any area currently in northern Mexico.
Aside from routine patrols of the area, Federal Police are expected to help monitor the Gomez Palacio CERESO No. 2, still under investigation with the Mexican Procuraduria General de la Republica, the national attorney general's office.