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Four soldiers were killed and nine injured when their military patrol came under attack with explosives while tracking down a criminal group in western Mexico.
According to a statement by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday, The ambush took place Thursday in a rural area of the Aguililla municipality in Michoacan province.
Lopez Obrador said that the soldiers had stumbled upon a trap, an explosive that killed one soldier on the spot and fatally wounded three more, and nine others were injured.
The president who faces frequent criticism from the opposition demanding a heavier hand against the country’s powerful drug cartels, added that this is what the Army, the Marine Corps and the National Guard has to face.
Mexico has registered more than 420,000 murders and 110,000 disappearances most attributed to criminal groups since the launch of a controversial military anti-drug offensive in 2006 by then-president Felipe Calderon.
Military sources consulted by AFP in Michoacan said anti-personnel mines and drones with explosives were used in Thursday’s ambush.
The area where the attack occurred is the scene of a dispute between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and another organization known as “El Abuelo.
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