The crisis of land mines in northern Mexico was charged this two fatal victims on Friday after one of these explosive artifacts destroyed a truck on a rural road in the municipality of San Fernando, in the state of … Tamaulipas, on the border with the United States.
During the week the State Government had communicated this situation to the population and had given precise instructions on how to proceed in case of detecting artifacts with the aspect of explosives. Terrestrial mines are a collateral effect of The fight between drug posters that takes place in Tamaulipasone of the most violent states in the country and the origin of various criminal organizations.
The Tamaulipas security spokesperson reported that Two men died and a woman was hospitalized after his vehicle activated a mine in a predominantly rural area.
Police sources identified the deceased as Horacio López Pena, 75, a resident of Santa Rita, and Antonio de Jesús Céspedes, 74, from Brownsville in Texas, while the wound is Ninfa Griselda Ortega, 50, also from Tamaulipas.
The three people were traveling in a Ford F150 truck that caught fire, and that resulted in the front and the cabin destroyed, according to images in which the vehicle is already observed without fire. In a photo you can see the crater that left the explosion in a gap next to a crop field and with the truck a few meters away.
The state government’s warning was issued after a truck was damaged on January 23 by a mine, in a Rio Bravo gap, and two days later a tractor was damaged in San Fernando.
«There is an inter -institutional team formed by the Ministry of National Defense, the National Guard and the State Guard, on the one hand, the Ministry of the Navy and the State Guard, on the other hand, which are carrying out the sweep to try to locate and deactivate and all these artifacts, ”explained this weekend the governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villarreal.
This week Mexican Army personnel were also deployed in the Michoacán in search of explosive mines buried in the communities of Buenavista, San Fernando, Tinajas and other areas adjacent to the municipality of Apatzingán.
Just on January 13, a high school teacher died as a result of the outbreak of an antipersonas land mine, when he moved aboard his vehicle, in this town.
The American consulate launches an alert
Meanwhile, the General Consulate of the United States In Matamoros, on the border between Tamaulipas and Texas, he issued a level 4 security alert yesterday so that US citizens do not travel precisely to Tamaulipas for the growing violence and drug traffickers.
“The United States Consulate is aware of increasingly frequent shootings that occur in Reynosa and its surroundings in the last hours of the night and the first hours of the morning,” said the representation.
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