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| Update on the Fighting in southern Chihuahua |
| 2011-03-05 |
| The events last Thursday appear to be not quite as dire as they were portrayed in Mexican press. Here is an update from the El Sol de Parral and El Monitor Parral. For a map of Chihuahua click here. The gunfight between Chihuahua state police agents and armed suspects near he southern town of Parral concluded at about 1500 hrs Thursday, and changed into a manhunt for several suspects, according to Mexican press accounts. Police agents with the Chihuahua state Policia Minsterial (PM) attempted to serve a warrant for murder and auto theft on several individuals Wednesday evening in the Parral, Chihuahua area. After learning the suspects fled to Villa Coronado, police agents requested backup from local police in nearby Valle de Allende and Villa Lopez. Those reinforcements arrived during the night of Wednesday to Thursday. Early the next morning, Thursday, PM agents learned that two of the suspects had fled Chihuahua, but others remained in Pico de Aguila, La Presa and San Pedro, around which the agents conducted searches. A request went out to Chihuahua city for additonal police forces, so that by 1500 hrs additional PM agents, agents from the Chihuahua state attorney general's office (PGJE), and some municipal police from Jimenez joined the hunt. It is unclear from press reports if any suspects have been arrested in the sweep/manhunt in any of those small communities. The police agent reported wounded Thursday suffered a mild wound from a bullet fragment. Municipal police deployed to the area, including municipal police from Jimenez and Parral, are currently under orders to patrol Matamoros, Cienega de Ceniceros, Allende, Corralejo and the area around Villa Coronado, and to arrest any individuals they find in the area. |
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