Yahoo News – by Leticia Pineda
Apatzingán (Mexico) (AFP) – Mexican federal forces launched an offensive to take over security in a violence-torn western state, seizing a drug cartel’s bastion and clashing with vigilantes who refused to disarm.
A convoy of 200 military and federal police forces rumbled into Apatzingan and disarmed municipal police officers in the city, which is known as a stronghold of the Knights Templar gang in Michoacan state. Continue reading “Mexican troops in deadly clash with vigilantes”

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