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Thursday 28 of March 2024

Mexican Immigration Officials Attacked to Free Migrants


President Enrique Peña Nieto speaks to Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís at the UN´s Assembly on Refugees and Migrants,photo: AP/Richard Drew
President Enrique Peña Nieto speaks to Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís at the UN´s Assembly on Refugees and Migrants,photo: AP/Richard Drew
As immigration agents transported those detained, five people on motorcycles attacked the vehicle with gunfire

Mexican immigration officials say five gunmen on motorcycles brazenly attacked a government vehicle transporting 25 immigrants and a suspected human trafficker, helping the smuggler and migrants to escape.

A Tuesday statement from Mexico’s National Immigration Institute says agents had detained the migrants from unspecified countries as well as their smuggler after a brief chase in the southern state of Oaxaca on Monday.

Later, as immigration agents transported those detained, five people on motorcycles attacked the vehicle with gunfire. Two agents were wounded — one by a bullet and another hit on the head with the butt of a pistol.