Soldiers under investigation after 6 people were shot on the highway in Mexico

The representatives of the Mexican prosecution opened an investigation against soldiers in the killing of six people with bullets in a northern state where clashes abound between drug gangs, a judicial source said on Tuesday.

The accident occurred on Monday on the highway in TamulipasIt is considered one of the most dangerous states of Mexico due to the presence of gang members involved in drug smuggling and migrants.

The many violent clashes in which the security forces in Tamulipas participated in accusations of killing outside the judiciary.

An official at the Public Prosecutor’s Office told AFP, asking not to be identified, that the forces involved in the last dead accident “were placed under investigation.”

A statement by the Ministry of Defense said that the group of soldiers was traveling on a highway when a small white truck tried to “collide” in a army vehicle.

The ministry said that the forces felt a threat and “used their weapons,” adding that five civilians were killed immediately while the sixth died on his way to the hospital.

In March, there were four Mexican soldiers convicted To 40 years in prison for killing five civilians in 2023 in Nuwevo Larado, a crime, a crime city on the border with the United States.

Public officials in the region were also targeted. In August, Mexican investigators referred to the organized crime in the killing of a senior federal official in Tamulipas, saying it was so Possible revenge To confiscate the last powers of stolen fuel there. Ernesto Vasquez Rina, a representative of Tamamolbas, was killed in the office of the Public Prosecutor, in broad daylight amid the busiest way in the border city of Renosa along the border of Texas.

Renosa has suffered from the escalation of violence since 2017 due to the internal differences between the competing groups to control drug trafficking, human smuggling and stealing fuel.

In May, The bodies of five musiciansMexican regional musical band members were found in the city. Prosecutors said that nine people were arrested believed to be part of a faction of the Gulf gang.