The Prosecutor’s Office is investigating whether the explosion was a ‘car bomb’ directed against the community police by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel or an incident due to the transport of chemicals or explosives.
The accident occurred this Saturday around 11:40 in the morning, when a vehicle exploded with its driver on board on Rayón Avenue, near the Coahuayana community police facilities.
“The driver died at the scene, in addition to two people in the regional hospital and there are six more injured,” detailed the FGR, which began an investigation folder to find the people responsible for the events.
In response, 205 elements of the Navy Secretariat were deployed, along with 21 vehicles, five helicopters, six doctors and 12 nurses.
Through personnel from the Sixteenth Naval Zone, the institution helped transfer the injured people to hospitals.
“Naval personnel were providing support and immediate medical attention to four injured people who required evacuation, who were channeled on a state government aircraft to nearby hospitals,” the agency said in a statement.
According to the Government of Michoacán, it does not recognize the community police of Coahuayana, since it has refused to accredit the trust exams and protocols of the National Public Security System (SNSP).
Héctor Zepeda Navarrete, known as ‘Comandante Teto’, is the leader of the community police since the emergence of self-defense groups in Michoacán 10 years ago to confront the criminal group called ‘The Knights Templar’.
The coasts of Michoacán, a strategic point for cocaine trafficking through Mexico, are an area that has been disputed for years by criminal groups such as the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) and the Familia Michoacana, which in turn maintain conflict with the community police forces of Aquila and Coahuayana.
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, launched on November 9 the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice, a strategy to address the problem of security and violence in the state after the murder of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, who was shot on November 1 during a public event for the Day of the Dead.
