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13 law enforcement officers killed after criminals ambush patrol in Mexico

Mexico City [Mexico], March 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Criminals have attacked a patrol of law enforcement bodies in the central Mexican state of Mexico, leaving 13 officers killed, the regional ministry of security said.

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Mexico City [Mexico], March 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Criminals have attacked a patrol of law enforcement bodies in the central Mexican state of Mexico, leaving 13 officers killed, the regional ministry of security said.
"On late Thursday, a joint convoy of the security ministry and the prosecutor's office of the state of Mexico was ambushed by a criminal group in the Llano Grande district of the Coatepec Harinas municipality ... Currently, we have information about eight killed officers of the security ministry and five dead employees of the prosecutor's office," a spokesperson for the regional ministry of security said in a statement on late Thursday.
The National Guard, army, navy and intelligence have joined an operation to find those responsible for the attack, the spokesperson added.
According to media reports, one more attack took place on Thursday in the neighboring municipality of Almoloya de Alquisiras, with four law enforcement officers having been killed in the incident. (ANI/Sputnik)

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