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Jesús Estrada and Rubén Villalpando
Correspondents
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, December 31, 2024, p. 4
Chihuahua, Chih., A group of Venezuelan migrants killed an element of the National Migration Institute (INM) assigned to breaches near the military checkpoint located at kilometer 28 of the Pan-American highway, the officer’s colleagues reported.
The State Public Security Secretariat (SSPE) of Chihuahua reported in turn that two people from Venezuela were arrested as alleged murderers of the INM agent. He specified that the capture was carried out based on a 911 report of the attack against the immigration personnel, which was confirmed by paramedics from the Medical Emergencies Regulatory Center of Ciudad Juárez.
In this regard, the Juarez municipal Public Security Secretariat reported that it received yesterday at 1:22 p.m. a report of a man injured by stones in the vicinity of the military and INM checkpoint known as Precos, which is located on the Pan-American Highway and the Samalayuca Desert, 35 kilometers south of the border city.
He indicated that in response, uniformed members of the state police, the National Guard and the military deployed an operation in a breach near Precos, where they located the body of the immigration agent; Criminalistics experts from the State Attorney General’s Office also arrived at the scene to process the scene.
Members of the SSPE Special Groups, an aircraft and drone personnel from the logistics area also participated, who in a few minutes located two possible perpetrators at the top of a hill where they tried to hide.
The INM element, whose identity was not revealed, was carrying out a patrol when he located the group of Venezuelans, tried to stop them and was attacked with stones, which caused injuries that caused his death.
When found, the victim had a head injury, had no vital signs and showed signs of violence. According to reports, those responsible are two men of Venezuelan origin.
announced the SSPE.
In Chihuahua, these types of acts from any person, national or foreign, will not be tolerated, so elements from the three levels of government will remain operational to prevent these actions.
indicated the agency.
