MEXICO City – Ten suspected cartel gunmen and four police were killed during a shootout on Saturday in a Mexican town near the United States border.
The shootout came days after US President Donald Trump on Tuesday raised bilateral tensions by saying he would designate the gangs as terrorists.
The government of the northern state of Coahuila said state police clashed at midday with a group of heavily armed gunmen in the small town of Villa Union.
The fighting went on for over an hour, during which ten gunmen were killed, three of them by security forces in pursuit of the gang members, Coahuila Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme said.
Four police were killed and six were injured, he added.
Coahuila has a history of gang violence, although the homicide total in the state that borders Texas is well below where it was seven years ago.(Reuters)
