At least 15 killed in shootout in Mexico between police and drug gangs

Shootout between police and two rival drug gangs in northern Mexico has left at least 15 dead. It was a predawn battle near Las Varas and it began ass a firefight between rival drug trafficking gangs and escalated when police arrived.
The region is hotly disputed territory for Mexico's drug cartels because its mountainous terrain and proximity to the border of the US make it a strategic corridor for sending cross shipment of narcotics to America.
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 6 July 2017.

Fifteen people belonging to the drug gangs were killed and another five are arrested. This is the latest in a series of deadly clashes between police, rival drug gangs and warring factions within one of the drug cartels which has been in turmoil since its kingpin was extradited to the United States in January.
It seems last Friday, 17 gunmen were killed in a shootout with police on a highway in Sinaloa. Incidentally, May was the deadliest month in Mexico since the government began keeping track in 1997 - it accounted for more than 2100 homicides.


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