{"id":84841,"date":"2026-06-11T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/5-police-officers-shot-dead-in-cartel-plagued-part-of-mexico-as-world-cup-kicks-off\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:36:36","slug":"5-police-officers-shot-dead-in-cartel-plagued-part-of-mexico-as-world-cup-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/5-police-officers-shot-dead-in-cartel-plagued-part-of-mexico-as-world-cup-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"5 police officers shot dead in cartel-plagued part of Mexico as World Cup kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Five Mexican police officers were shot dead and five others wounded Wednesday in violence-hit Michoacan state on the eve of the World Cup opener in Mexico City, local authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The officers were attacked by unknown assailants in an Indigenous region of the western state, which is plagued by cartel violence, the state government reported.<\/p>\n<p>The pickup truck they were traveling in was riddled with bullet holes, according to images obtained by AFP. <\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/policiademorelia\/posts\/pfbid02dUxrEoyYR7RC2dyETHife47ToLNa1VCkDYjXrwCMnPVPn1iaD91PTqbzN8Va1QWFl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media post<\/a>, the Moriela Police Department identified the slain officers as Porfirio Rodriguez Briseno, Brandon Josue Zamora Torres, Francisco Javier Otero Damas, Jonatan Mondragon Servin and\u00a0 Mateo Valdez Abarca.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Pablo Alarcon Olemdo, the city&#8217;s former police chief, extended his condolences the victims&#8217; families and friends. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The criminals responsible for this attack must be arrested and punished with the full weight of the law,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pablo.alarconolmedo\/posts\/pfbid0bwjsxTFqNWxbaSAuwrTrFMaAyjbCzJsEtk1oWy741qQUNwhrJkBpAu81G837iSoFl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The attack took place in the municipality of Nahuatzen, a region inhabited by the Purepecha people where the powerful <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/el-mencho-killed-jalisco-cartel-future-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">New Jalisco New Generation Cartel<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(CJNG) operates.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the brazen murder of a small-city mayor, allegedly by the CJNG, prompted angry protests targeting symbols of the state, which many residents accused of failing to combat spiraling violence.<\/p>\n<p>Michoacan&#8217;s capital Morelia is situated around 300 kilometers from both Mexico City and fellow World Cup host city Guadalajara.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s security department said police were searching for the perpetrators of Wednesday&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s government insists that there is no security threat to visiting World Cup fans.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico is co-hosting the tournament with Canada and the United States. The <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-embassy-mexico-safety-risks-world-cup\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">U.S. Embassy said<\/a><\/span> this week that because safety risks in Mexico can &#8220;vary greatly by region,&#8221; each Mexican state has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/en\/international-travel\/travel-advisories\/mexico.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">given its own travel advisory<\/a>\u00a0by the U.S. State Department. <\/p>\n<p>In late April,\u00a0 the Mexican military captured one of the CJNG&#8217;s top leaders in the northwest of the country, two months after the cartel&#8217;s leader was killed. Audias Flores Silva, also known as &#8220;El Jardinero,&#8221; or The Gardener, was seen as a possible successor to the killed leader and the United States had a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/audias-flores-silva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$5 million reward<\/a>\u00a0out for information leading to his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Flores Silva was seen as a possible successor to Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, or\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/el-mencho-nemesio-ruben-oseguera-cervantes-jalisco-new-generation-cartel-history\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;El Mencho,<\/a><\/span>&#8221; who was killed in a dramatic military operation in February. 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