A new violent act has taken place in the Mexican state of Chiapas as the current mayor of the municipality of La Concordia, Miguel Angel Cordova Ochoa, known as “El Amigo Migue”, was attacked in broad daylight on the streets of the city he controls. As a result of the attack, three of his escorts were killed, the official managed to save his life by hiding in the school.
According to the website La Silla Rota, the events took place right outside the school where the mayor hid, his escorts were waiting for him outside in a van, when armed men arrived at the scene and opened fire on them with large-caliber weapons. looks like an AK-47 or “cuernos de chivo” and a P-15. Two men died instantly, another was badly injured, lying on the pavement, where he bled to death.
The video of the attack went viral on social media., in one of them a wounded bodyguard asks a man to call his wife. Moments later, the guard, identified as Alex, was taken by a civil protection ambulance to the hospital, but was reportedly unable to get there and died from various bullet wounds sustained all over his body, police said. .
Meanwhile, there were moments of real panic inside the private school, as both the students and the teaching staff began to hear the explosions of firearms and did not know where they came from.
The state police organized an operation to remove the mayor from the school. Directors of the educational center asked parents not to approach the territory until investigations were carried out that led to their disagreement with the risk to which the children were exposed in the classroom at the time of the attack.
As for the mayor, the Chiapas Attorney General’s Office (FGE) said he was unharmed in the attack. Universal newspaper reported that minutes before the hitmen arrived, Cordova Ochoa stepped out of a Suburban truck that was fired upon with a machine gun, allowing him to save his life.
As for the dead, those who died instantly were identified as Rubén Rovelo and Diego Suárez Basaul, workers from and from the municipality of La Concordia.
La Concordia is located in the center of Chiapas. Due to its geographical position and proximity to the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, the municipality was used for smuggling migrants and illegal goods imported across the southern border of the country.
Source: La Opinion
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