Three police officers died during a shootout with suspected criminals in a bar in the municipality of Esquipulas, in northern Nicaragua, the National Police reported Monday.
The shooting occurred on Sunday night at 9:30 p.m. (03:30 GMT this Monday) in the municipality of Esquipulas, department of Matagalpa, about 135 kilometers north of Managua, when the agents “performed surveillance and patrolling in the community ”, Police said in a statement.
According to the police version, the officers died when they were shot at by three people in a bar, including Wilfredo de Jesús Arancibia Espinoza, 31, who allegedly committed a homicide on August 29, 2021.
Arancibia and his two companions opened fire when they saw that a group of law enforcement officers entered the bar, where they intended to arrest the alleged murderer, according to police information.
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The murdered policemen
In the act died the inspector Ana María Huerta Montenegro, 39, and non-commissioned officers José Eliseo González Sánchez (27) and William Javier Alvarado Tercero (30).
In a photograph shared on social networks, it is observed that one of the three victims was wearing the uniform of the National Police, another in civilian clothes and the third does not appear in the image.
The aggressors fled the scene of the crime, but two of them, identified as Anielka Vanesa Rosales, 32, and Lorenzo Raudez Blanco, 41, were captured before dawn on Monday, while Arancibia remains a fugitive, the Police detailed. Nicaraguan.
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This is the second time this October that the National Police has suffered casualties in the midst of shootings.
Last day 1, the agent Aracely Marisol Díaz Salinas, 21, died during the assault on a vehicle of a cocoa exporting company that was transporting personnel with the payroll of the workers.
Like Díaz Salinas, the three officers who died on Sunday night “will receive merit honors and will be posthumously promoted today to the rank of lieutenant,” the National Police said.
