A policeman dies after ambush of gunmen in Reynosa

Yesterday gave an ambush against state police by a group of gunmen in Reynosa, in the attack an element of police was killed after being gunned down in the patrol car he was traveling.

Reynosa, Tamaulipas An armed group ambushed a convoy of yesterday Mixed Operations Base, BOM, in the fractionation Las Fuentes Section Lomas, in a direct attack where a police car was riddled with police against dying a state of Tamaulipas Force.

The Coordination Group Tamaulipas confirmed that the officer by the name of Rodolfo Montes Guerrero, who was driving the patrol number 318 and was hit in the head by a projectile from a firearm in the confrontation registered crossing the boulevards Las Fuentes and Rio San Juan of that division.

'The incident was recorded shortly after four o'clock, when elements of federal and state forces of a Mixed Operations Base performed ground surveys and the aforementioned cruise were attacked by armed civilian members of a criminal group , ' 'he said GCT's statement.

Aggression, the report said, then led to a chase that forced the criminals to block circulation in the Reynosa-Pharr Road and the beltway Colosio, in order to escape the federal and state authorities.

The blockages were cleared by elements of the Navy Department, Secretariat of National Defense, Federal Police Force and Tamaulipas, reestablishing the circulation in both points before seven o'clock.

Those responsible for the attack on the elements of the Mixed Operations Base and death of the state police, managed to flee.

According to witnesses the confrontation, state and federal, as well as marine and military police who make up the BOM, were attacked by armed civilians persecuted the crew of a private car, who moved to speeding down the Boulevard Las sources and did not obey the order to stop.

Suddenly, at the junction with Calle San Juan, a pickup truck and other vehicles blocked her way to the convoy in the so - called second round of the colony Las Fuentes Section Lomas, descending several men who opened fire on the officers, hitting full 318 in the state patrol several shells of high - powered weapons, one of which struck the head of Rodolfo Montes agent Guerrero, who was driving the unit.

The crew of other vehicles joined the attack, leaving the members of the convoy in the crossfire, which responded by activating their weapons charge to make the attackers fled.