MEXICO CITY: Gunmen shot dead six traffic police in the central Mexican city of Salamanca on Friday, authorities said, one of the deadliest attacks on security forces in recent months. The six were carrying out routine checks when they were killed, Guillermo Maldonado, a senior Salamanca city official, said in a video broadcast on Mexican television. Broadcaster Televisa said at least three gunmen in a white vehicle opened fire on the unarmed victims, then fled the scene. Homicides reached record levels last year in Mexico, and have climbed further this year, official data show. Separately, the newspaper Reforma and broadcaster Milenio said that five people had been shot dead in the municipality of Leonardo Bravo in the violent southwestern state of Guerrero, according to state security spokesman Roberto Alvarez.

Source: New Strait Times June 02, 2018 06:03 UTC