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11 dead in clash between criminal gang and villagers in central Mexico
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https://apnews.com/article/mexico-farming-town-11-dead-drug-cartel-c38c846aa25052dee1e21c2c8e9d1660
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
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Dramatic video of the fight posted on social media showed villagers in cowboy hats with sickles and hunting rifles chasing down suspected gang members amid bursts of automatic gunfire.
State police said eight of the dead were members of the criminal gang, while three were village residents.
Police did not identify the gang, but the violent Familia Michoacana drug cartel has been dominant in that area for a decade.
The video appeared to show the attackers wore military-style uniforms, some with helmets.
Drug cartels in Mexico have been known to extort money from almost any licit or illicit business that they can, sometimes attacking or burning ranches, farms or stores that refuse to pay.
The Familia Michoacana is known for its brazen ambushes of police as well as the the 2022 massacre of 20 townspeople in the town of Totolapan in neighboring Guerrero state.
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