Convoy Carrying Money for Federal Programs Ambushed

Armadillo BorderlandBeat from Proceso

TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis., .- A group of armed men ambushed and assaulted a vehicle carrying resources from a federal program for the elderly, more than three million pesos stolen and three state and one municipal police officers injured.

The events occurred this morning in the section known as El Escopetazo, between Tuxtla and the municipality of Ixtapa, when a vehicle that carried the resources and was escorted by state police, was attacked by armed men.

The caravan of vehicles tried to flee, but  stones and sticks thrown into the road prevented them from passing.

During the assault, the armed and hooded men took 3.2 million pesos. Three state and one municipal police officers were shot, a helicopter had to arrive to transfer them to Tuxtla Gutierrez.

That section has become the point of highway assaults in which an armed civil group operates and has not been able to be dismantled.

The State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), through the Central District Prosecutor’s Office, said this afternoon that it initiated an investigation folder for the crime of robbery with violence in the municipality of Ixtapa to the detriment of the company Banco del Ahorro Nacional y Servicios SNC Financial.

According to the investigation file, the incident occurred on Wednesday morning on the Chiapa de Corzo-Ixtapa road, El Aguacate-Colonia Cañitas section.

The Prosecutor’s Office said that it relieves all the proceedings by collecting the evidence within the investigation folders to identify the persons responsible for this commission of the crime indicated and bring them to justice.