5 law enforcement officials died Monday after they have been ambushed by an armed group within the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala, native officers mentioned.
The assault occurred within the city of Frontera Comalapa, the place the Chiapas state law enforcement officials have been on patrol once they have been ambushed.
“Members of the state police have been attacked and ambushed,” the governor of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramirez, mentioned on social media.
Ramirez recognized the slain officers as Guillermo Cortés Morales, Jesús Sánchez Pérez, Joel Martínez Pérez, Brenda Lizbeth Toalá Blanco and Pedro Hernández Hernánde.
The native Safety Secretariat mentioned it had deployed greater than 1,000 officers to “attend to the scenario and assure safety within the space.”
Chiapas State Governor Eduardo Ramirez 
The company additionally shared a picture of the slain officers’ charred patrol car after it was utterly engulfed in flames on a roadway.
Later, the company introduced on social media they’d arrested a person in connection to the murders. Authorities mentioned the suspect was hiding within the weeds about half a mile from the crime scene, carrying an AK-47 rifle and a backpack with navy uniforms. Officers didn’t instantly give details about different potential suspects.
In current months, Chiapas has been shaken by a bloody turf warfare between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Technology cartel — the nation’s two strongest felony organizations. Chiapas has been described by the InSight Crime assume tank as “a serious smuggling hub of each medication and migrants.”
In December, authorities mentioned they recovered greater than 30 our bodies from pits in Chiapas.
