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6 Mexican police officers, prosecutors killed in series of roadway bomb blasts
Fox News
A series of coordinated bomb blasts in western Mexico killed six police officers and prosecutors. The bomb blasts are suspected to be coordinated by the country's cartels.
For years, police have been unable to locate the more than 110,000 missing people in Mexico, but they accompany volunteer search groups that look for such hidden graves. The volunteers, usually the mothers of missing people, often get anonymous tips about where their relatives may be buried.
Jalisco Gov. Enrique Alfaro said a total of eight "improvised explosive devices" were planted on the roadway, seven of which detonated simultaneously as a police convoy passed by.
"This is a brutal terror attack," Alfaro said at a news conference Wednesday, blaming the deaths on an unnamed drug cartel. He said he was temporarily suspending police escorts for volunteer searches for the safety of the civilians.