The trap is being blamed on gun for hire for a possible drug cartel.
The hired guns barricaded the road the convoy was traveling on with trucks. When the convoy of police automobiles was near a school on the outskirts of Zitacuaro, they used machine guns to shoot them.
Some of the gunmen where killed but others ran off, they took their wounded with them.
The city of Michoacan is the main center for the La Familia. The are one of Mexico’s most feared drug gangs.
Just last year they were blamed for another incident where 12 federal agents were tortured then their bodies left lying on a main road in Michoacan.
Then in a separate incident, 28 inmates died at a prison in Sinaloa. There was a battle between gangs, once again related to drugs and 28 were left dead.
Both incidents are thought to be drug related.
The prison battle between the two rival gangs was in Mazatlan which is located in the northern-western parts of Sinaloa state. There is also drug fierceness there.
The 28 inmates who died were all shot. There were also 2 prison guards injured.
They have regained control of the jail. They found and confiscated an assault rifle and two handguns.
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