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Fifteen state police officers were killed in an ambush by suspected gang members in western Mexico on Monday, authorities said on Tuesday. Officials added that this was the second major attack on security forces in the past month.
Forensics and security forces work at the scene after a mayor was shot dead in Mexico, the latest politically related killing in the country plagued by violence and organized crime. Guillermo Torres, 39, and his 14-year-old son were attacked at a restaurant in Morelia, the capital of western Michoacan state, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. His son survived. IMAGES
Police secure a perimeter around the location where at least eleven people, including a minor, were killed by gunmen who shot at them in the street in the municipality of Tonalá, in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, the local prosecutor's office said. The men were in two vans and opened fire on several people who were in the street outside their homes. IMAGES
A forensic police vehicle is parked outside the monastery where a Catholic priest was killed in Vendee, western France. The suspect handed himself over to the police after killing the clergyman. IMAGES
San Salvador, Apr 3 (EFE),.- The mortal remains of Victoria Esperanza Salazar, the Salvadoran migrant allegedly killed by Mexican police arrived Sunday to El Salvador. (Camera: VLADIMIR CHICAS)SHOT LIST: THE ARRIVAL AND TRANSPORTATION OF THE MORTAL REMAINS OF VICTORIA ESPERANZA SALAZAR IN SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR.