MEXICO CITY — Four police officers were killed and seven others wounded in gang attacks in western Mexico, according to local officials, and two bystanders were being treated for wounds. The Michoacan state prosecutors’ office said attackers opened fire on one patrol vehicle and then twice ambushed reinforcements that were sent in to help on Sunday. The prosecutors’ office did not identify which gang was behind the attack in the city of Zamora. The dead and seven of the wounded were municipal police, who in most parts of Mexico rarely play a front-line role against drug cartels. Municipal police are relatively lightly armed and are less well-paid and trained than their federal and state police colleagues.

Source: Washington Post May 27, 2019 17:15 UTC