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| Cop Shop Grenade Attack Kills 1 in Monterrey; Attack Wounds 2 Apodaca Cops |
| 2011-06-01 |
| For a map, click here. For a map of Nuevo Leon, click here. For a map of Monterrey, click here . One unidentified Monterrey police officer was killed and three others were wounded in a grenade attack on a police station in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Tuesday night, according to Mexican news reports. The attack took place at around 1930 hours near the intersection of calles Francisco Beltran and Churubusco where armed suspects attacked the officers using a grenade and small arms fire. An undisclosed number of police units were damaged in the attack as well. Monterrey metropolitan police forces have suffered a number of attacks last month including three separate ambushes which took the lives of eight police officers in the Monterrey suburb of Guadalupe ten days ago. To read the Rantburg report of the three ambushes in Guadalupe, click here ( sixth, seventh and eighth item). In a related incident, an Apodaca, Nuevo Leon municipal police captain was wounded along with his bodyguard in an ambush Tuesday night in Apodaca. Captain Eulalio Lopez Cosme and his unidentified bodyguard were on patrol near the intersection of avenidas Chopo and the Mezquital-Santa Rosa highway when armed suspects riding aboard several vehicles travelling in convoy fired on the police. Lopez Cosme managed to return fire before being being hit in the abdomen. Lopez Cosme is the deputy chief of police of Apodaca and Transit Police chief. |
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