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The arrest of Ovidio Guzman, son of jailed drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has sparked lethal violence in Mexico.
(Reuters)
Ten troopers and 19 prison suspects have been killed within the operation to arrest Ovidio Guzman, son of jailed drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican authorities mentioned.
“Ten members of the military… unfortunately lost their lives in the line of duty,” Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval instructed reporters, including 19 “lawbreakers” had been additionally killed within the operation.
Ovidio Guzman, nicknamed “El Raton” (The Mouse), had allegedly helped to run his father’s operations since El Chapo was extradited to the United States in 2017.
The 32-year-old was rounded up Thursday within the northwestern metropolis of Culiacan and flown to Mexico City on a navy aircraft following six months of intelligence work to trace him down, the federal government mentioned.
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The United States had a reward out of as much as $5 million for data resulting in Ovidio Guzman’s seize. It accuses him of being a key participant within the notorious Sinaloa cartel.
Gunfire and arson shook Culiacan after the arrest, which got here as Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ready to welcome his US counterpart Joe Biden subsequent week for a North America leaders’ summit the place safety is anticipated to be excessive on the agenda.
Initial experiences had been {that a} National Guardsman was killed and at the least 28 folks wounded within the violence, whereas college courses had been suspended.
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Source: AFP
