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State police in southern Mexico Chiapas And the federal forces killed four alleged criminals on Sunday during a prosecution in an area bordering Guatemala, the local government said. The incident took place a few days after Five police officers were killed In an ambush by an armed group in the same area.
A statement From the local security secretariat, events have occurred in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa after the security forces were attacked during a routine patrol.
“The authorities have pushed the fire … and managed to kill four alleged members of the organized crime,” the statement said.
Local media have indicated that the security forces may have entered the Guatemalan territory during the prosecution.
The Guatemalan vice-president Karin Herrera written on social networks that “the border is under control” and that the army and the police maintain “an active presence in the region to guarantee the protection and security of the population”.
The Chiapas Security Secretariat insisted that the operation took place in Mexico.
A source from the agency, which asked not to be identified, told AFP that the dead were members of the powerful Cartel Jalisco New Generation.
The Chiapas Security Secretariat said it had seized four trucks, three AK-47 long cannons and other weapons after the incident. The agency Published images of trucks On the scene and some seemed to be riddled with bullet holes.
Chiapas security secretariat 
In recent months, Chiapas was shaken by a bloody war in the lawn between the Sinaloa cartel and the Cartel Jalisco New Generation – The two most powerful criminal organizations in the country.
Last week, five police officers from the Police of Chiapas Patrolling in the region were killed after being caught by an armed group of Frontera Comalapa, according to the local security secretariat.
Authorities Shared an image From the carbonized patrol vehicle of officers killed after being completely swallowed up by flames on a roadway. Later, the agency Announced on social networks They had arrested a man as part of the murders.
Criminal violence, the majority of drug trafficking, has made a living of around 480,000 lives in Mexico since 2006 and left more than 120,000 disappeared.
