Mexico cartel used explosive drones to attack police
Suspected criminals in Mexico have used drones to drop explosives on police, injuring two officers.
Officials think the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) is behind Tuesday’s attack in the western state of Michoacán. In August, two rigged drones were found in the car of suspected CJNG members. The drones are thought to be the latest weapons in a deadly war between the drugs cartel and the security forces and vigilantes opposed to them. Not much detail has been released about Tuesday’s attack but local media said two drones had been used.
It is believed they were rigged in a similar way to the two drones that were found in the car boot of suspected cartel members. The drones seized last year had containers taped to them which had been filled with plastic explosives and ball bearings. Experts said they had been set up to be detonated remotely and could have inflicted deadly damage.
The officers injured on Tuesday had been deployed to clear roads leading to the city of Aguililla, in Michoacán, which had been blocked by the cartel to impede the access of the security forces.(BBC)…[+]