Two state police officers belonging to the Zacatecas Immediate Reaction Forces (FRIZ) were killed in an ambush early Monday morning in the community of El Coecillo, in the municipality of Luis Moya, on the border with Aguascalientes. A gunman involved in the confrontation also died.
Authorities also reported that a third officer is hospitalized in critical condition following the armed clash that occurred around 2:30 a.m. Monday in the town located about 70 kilometers south of the city of Zacatecas.
The first officer killed at the scene was identified as Ricardo Flores Villegas. The second officer died around noon Monday in a hospital where he was being treated.
In this regard, the governor of Zacatecas, David Monreal Ávila, denounced the impunity with which the members of the criminal cell that attacked the police officers acted. After ambushing the officers—who were in their patrol car—they managed to escape and cross into the municipality of Cosío, Aguascalientes:
“I say with impunity, because you can no longer pursue them beyond our borders… and you tell the Army, the National Guard, ‘Hey, there they are, there they are,’” but the federal forces, the governor lamented, did not go after them, despite the fact that on previous occasions, the federal government had been informed that a criminal group operates in that border region of the two states and has attacked the municipal police headquarters of Luis Moya twice.
“Unfortunately, one officer lost his life, and when one is attacked, all law enforcement agencies are attacked,” Monreal Ávila warned.
David Monreal assured that the attackers, “came from Aguascalientes, they take refuge there, in the border area, it has been identified… if you ask me right now I will tell you where the problems are: in the border area of the Zacatecas municipalities of Luis Moya, Ojocaliente and Loreto, with Aguascalientes.”
Source: jornada
