5 dead police officers after being

Five policemen died on Monday after they were ambushed by an armed group in the south of the Mexican state of Chiapason the border with Guatemala, local officials said.

The attack occurred in the city of Frontera Comalapa, where Chiapas State Police officers were in patrol when they were ambushed.

“The members of the State Police were attacked and ambushed,” said the governor of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramírez, on social networks.

Ramirez Identified The Slain Officers as Guillermo Cortés Morales, Jesús Sánchez Pérez, Joel Martínez Pérez, Brenda Lizbeth Toalá Blanco and Pedro Hernández Hernánde.

The Local Security Ministry said it had deployed more than 1,000 officers to “address the situation and guarantee security in the area.”

The agency also shared an image of the carbonized patrol vehicle of the officers killed after it was completely wrapped in flames on a road.

Later, the agency announced on social networks that had arrested a man in relation to murders. The authorities said the suspect was hiding in the weeds to a half mile of the crime scene, carrying an AK-47 rifle and a backpack with military uniforms. The officials did not immediately give information about other possible suspects.

In recent months, Chiapas has been shaken by a bloody lawn war between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation poster – The two most powerful criminal organizations in the country. Chiapas has been described by the group of crime experts as “an important drug and migrant smuggling center.”

In December, the authorities said they recovered More than 30 bodies Of spotlights in Chiapas.

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