At least 13 officers killed after suspected drug cartel hitmen open fire and set vehicles on fire in Michoacan state of Mexico.

More than a dozen police officers have been killed and nine others wounded in an ambush by gunmen in the Mexican state of Michoacan, a western region where violence attributed to drug cartels has spiked in recent months.

The state police officers on Monday had gone to a home in the town of El Aguaje in Aguililla municipality to issue a warrant when "several armed civilians fired on them" and set their vehicles on fire, Michoacan's state security department said in a statement.

The federal public security ministry said 14 police were killed, though its Michoacan state counterpart reported that 13 officers were confirmed dead.
"No attack on the police will go unpunished, and this was a cowardly, devious attack because they laid an ambush in this area of the road," Silvano Aureoles, state governor, said.

Souce: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/mexican-policemen-killed-cartel-ambush-191015055631257.html

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