Mexico City Security Minister Omar Garcia Arfucha was the victim of an attack this 06/26.
Militants of the New Generation Cartel Jalisco (the victim blamed precisely this organization) attacked at about 6.30 an SUV and an official escort vehicle.
The militants were disguised as workers and blocked a convoy of police cars on one of the central streets of the city, after which they fired heavily at the vehicles, including the use of 12.7-mm Barrett sniper rifles.
Two security guards were killed, and a woman who passed by at the time of the attack was also killed.
The minister himself received three gunshot wounds and is in the hospital.
Arriving security forces detained 12 people, seized several weapons and grenades.
Detainees attacking García Harfuch
Three weeks ago, 28 suspected hitmen were hired to attack Omar García Harfuch, Mexico City’s Secretary of Security; The attackers were reportedly sent by the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, a criminal group led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho,” the most wanted drug lord by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
