Eleven men died in a gunfight in northern Mexico and at least seven people, including an opposition politician, have been killed in violence in the southwest of the country, authorities said yesterday.
State prosecutors in the northern border state of Chihuahua said a shootout between rival gangs killed 11 suspected gang members near the town of Guachochi in southwestern Chihuahua.
The gunfight was one of the bloodiest in recent months to hit northern Mexico, an area hotly disputed by drug gangs seeking control of smuggling routes where violence has eased since scaling record heights in 2010 and 2011.
Police found four burned out pick-up trucks at the scene with four of the men´s bodies totally charred. About 1,000 spent cartridges were strewn around the area, prosecutors said.
Separately, a series of clashes extending from Friday into Saturday involving students, police and armed men in the southwestern town of Iguala killed at least six people and left some 20 injured, the government of Guerrero state said.
