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Mexican Army operations in several locations in Nuevo Leon has led to the rescue of two unidentified kidnapping victims and two dead, according to the Mexican daily Milenio.
In Monterrey suburb Apodaca Monday afternoon, a Mexican Army moved to unblocked roads which were blocked by several heavy vehicles.
The first block was reported at about 1450 hrs on the Apodaca-Santa Rosa road in the Lomas de La Paz colony where a tractor trailer was used to block the road. A Policia Federal mobile patrol managed to move the vehicle.
At 1650 hrs near the corner of Villa Juärez and Dulces Nombres where three heavy vehicles were blocking the road, including a tractor trailer rig, a passenger truck and a bus all disabled with tires shot out.
Roadblocks are a common tactic with Mexican drug gangs and are used to block intervention from authorities in their operations.
At 1435 hrs Sunday in the 15 de Septiembre colony in Monterrey, a Mexican Army patrol encountered a criminal group riding in two vehicles who fired ion the soldiers. Return fire caused the criminal elements to flee on board one of the vehicles after abandoning the other vehicle. On board the abandoned vehicle were found three rifles, an unspecified number of magazines and two radios.
At 1630 hrs in the Constituyentes del 57 colony a Mexican Army unit rescued two unidentified kidnap victims and captured two armed suspects. Soldiers also seized four vehicles and two shotguns.
Finally in Cadereyta in the General Teran municipality Monday afternoon, a Mexican Army unit fought with suspected drug criminals at a location known as Estacion Vaquero, where two individuals, a man and a woman were shot and killed aboard a Ford Explorer SUV.