Mexican security forces seized an armory containing several rifles and forty trucks, some of them armored, during the operation.
The government of Mexico has confirmed the deaths of 29 people, including ten soldiers, during the violent arrest of Ovidio Guzmán, son of jailed drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, in Sinaloa last Thursday.
At a press conference, Defense Secretary General Luis Cresencio Sandoval González confirmed the deaths of another 19 “law violators” in reference to the gunmen who tried to prevent the recapture of Guzmán.
Ovidio Guzmán, who the government says is the leader of the Los Menores faction affiliated with the Sinaloa cartel, was detained by public forces in Culiacán, in the northwest of the state, on Thursday in an operation that turned into a campaign struggle. for the whole city. According to Sandoval González, another 21 people were detained during the operation, which ended with no civilian casualties.
During the operation, security forces seized an arsenal of four Barrett 50-caliber sniper rifles and six other machine guns of the same caliber, 26 weapons and 13 vehicles, loaders, cartridges and tactical equipment. Another forty vans were knocked out, 26 of them armored. “The Mexican state will give all its support to the families of the deceased,” assured Secretary Sandoval, who thanked the army for carrying out their work.
Source: La Verdad
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