Veracruz, Mexico.– A series of shootings between organized crime cells were recorded this Thursday in the port of Tuxpan, Veracruz, state sources reported.
However, the Morenoist Governor Cuitláhuac García indicated that “they were only a few shots.”
One of the confrontations was alerted to emergency services in the Jardines de Tuxpan subdivision, near the downtown area, which caused the closure of businesses and services. Among other places of conflict, the Camino a Juan Lucas and the Colonia Rosa María stood out, although users on social networks reported shootings in various parts of the port.
Given these events, classes in public and private schools were suspended and the situation caused anxiety among residents, who saturated traffic in their desperation to get their children out of the schools.
Before the media, the state leader assured that the situation was controlled and that security was reinforced, but he minimized citizen reports by assuring that “there is no psychosis.” “What happens is that in some networks they raise this situation, if you realize it was only a few shots, generally these issues move a lot on the networks, but we have the situation under control,” he assured. “We are acting in a coordinated manner, so far there is no problem with the population, I insist again, it is a confrontation between the cells of the criminal groups, they went to where the other was and there they found each other,” he informed the media. However, he admitted that the Code Red was activated, in case of risk to the population, and that the State Police, in coordination with the Army and the National Guard, deployed an operation to arrest those responsible for the shootings. The state president also told the media that it was up to them to deal with the issue. “If they encourage misinformation, you see how there are people who like to misinform,” he insisted. Access to Tuxpan through the bridge that crosses the Pantepec River was closed by authorities, from Highway 130D, through Santiago de la Peña. So far no authority has released the toll of the shootings. The deployment of the military involved the departure of several convoys on the roads to Naranjo, Tihuatlán and Álamo, the sources reported.
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