A stray bullet was responsible for the fatality, but the crash also resulted in several injuries
Two armed incidents between presumably civilian groups left at least one person dead by stray bullet and several wounded in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, in northern Mexico, state authorities reported this Friday. “The State Public Security Secretariat informs the population of Matamoros that during the last hour there have been two armed incidents between unidentified civilians, lamenting loss of life and injuries. The accuracy of the casualties is being corroborated,” the agency said in a brief statement.
According to local media, at least one woman would have lost her life due to a stray bullet during these clashes. Given these facts, the authorities recommended that the general population stay at home so as not to expose their integrity. In addition, they said that elements of the Ministry of National Defense, the Navy, the National Guard, the State Guard and the federal and state Prosecutor’s Offices “have increased their presence through tours of the entire urban area and its surroundings to protect citizens & rdquor ;.
The city of Matamoros is considered the cradle of the Gulf Cartel, created in the eighties, and since that time it has maintained control of the city, which is a neighbor of Brownsville, Texas. A couple of years ago, the Prosecutor’s Office discovered a piece of land on the outskirts of Matamoros and very close to the border with the United States known as ‘Ejido la Bartolina’, where criminals made their victims disappear by burning them. In that area were located 500 kilos of bonesreported Karla Quintana, head of the National Commission for the Search for Missing Persons, which calls these places “extermination zones.”
These events occur just days after reporting a year-on-year increase of 6.43% in homicides in January in Mexico, which last year registered 30,968 murders after the two most violent years in its history.