Military Mayhem in Nuevo Leon: Mexican Army Bags 3 Bad Guys
2010-10-31
Posted by: badanov
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Elements of the Mexican Army fought armed suspects in two separate firefights in Nuevo Leon early Saturday morning ending with a toll of three gunmen dead, while later that night in San Nicolas de los Garza, a shooting by armed suspects killed one civilian and wounded two municipal police, say Mexican press accounts.
The attack in San Nicolas took place at roughly an hour after the last of the coordinated grenade attacks on Nuevo Leon police facilities at 2100 hrs near the corner of Mozambique and Nogalar in the Valle del Nogalar district where armed suspects riding in a vehicle fired on a scene where two municipal police patrol cars were parked near an unidentified civilian who was performing minor maintenance on his Ford Windstar van.
The shots hit and killed the civilian, and hit the parked patrol vehicles as well, wounding two officers and causing damage to the vehicles.
San Nicolas de los Garza is a suburb of Monterrey.
Early Saturday morning at around 0400 hrs in Cadereyta a patrol of the Mexican Army encountered several pickup trucks with armed suspects aboard near the corner of the Cadereyta-Allende highway and Libramiento Alfonso Martinez Dominguez.
The army patrol initiated a pursuit after the suspects fired on the patrol. One of the suspect's trucks crashed and then burst into flames. One suspect died on impact while the other died as he was thrown from the vehicle.
The other vehicles in the suspect convoy escaped before the crash.
Cadereyta, which is about 30 kilometers due east of Monterrey, has been the scene of numerous encounters between armed groups and the Mexican Army in recent weeks.
An hour later in in Juarez, Nuevo Leon, a detachment of the Mexican Army encountered an suspect convoy with one Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck and a Chevrolet Suburban SUV. When the drivers were signaled to pull over, armed suspects aboard the vehicles open fired on the patrol and attempted to flee the scene.
The subsequent pursuit through the streets led the army to the Riveras of Santa Maria district where the driver of the Suburban vehicles failed to realize he had turned into a dead end and attempted to flee by driving the vehicle down an embankment by the Santa Catarina River, disabling the SUV. Meanwhile, the occupants of the Silverado managed to escape.
Apparently the suspects continued shooting at the army patrol as the suspects escaped on foot, however, one armed suspect died in the firefight. Despite a search of the area the remaining suspects could not be found.