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Federal police officers stand guard at a gas station following an arson attack in Morelia. REUTERS/Alan Ortega
Morelia, Mexico - An
armed group ambushed a federal police convoy in a western Mexico state
plagued by violence, killing two officers and wounding nine others,
officials said Thursday.
The officers were traveling in
four buses escorted by two police vehicles when they were shot at by
gunmen hidden on a hill in Michoacan late Wednesday, the national
security commission said in a statement.
The wounded officers were taken to
hospitals after the attack near the town of Las Yeguas, close to the
municipality of Apatzingan, a bastion of the Knights Templar drug
cartel.
The federal government deployed
thousands of troops and police officers to Michoacan in May to return
peace to the state amid confrontations between the cartel and vigilante
groups that formed in towns fed up with gang violence.
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