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Mexico City (AP) — A Mexican army patrol was surrounded and attacked in the town of Alter, the Mexican president said Monday.
The altar, about 60 miles (100 km) south of Sasabe, Arizona, has long been known as the stage for smuggling immigrants and is reportedly dominated by the Sina Loa cartel faction. increase.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador detained three suspected criminals on Sunday, but was soon surrounded by 10 or 15 pickups and 60 gunmen. Said that.
The perpetrators outnumbered the soldiers by 10 to 1, Lopez Obrador said.
He offered $ 500,000 to soldiers to release one of the suspects detained by the perpetrator, and when the soldier refused, a gun battle broke out and one soldier Said was killed.
A video posted on social media by Altar residents showed a fierce gun battle, apparently containing the sound of automatic weapon firing.
Sonora Governor Alfonso Durazo wrote in a social media account that four suspects were detained for possession of weapons.
