Mexico investigates soldiers for killing six on highway

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Aerial view of the populous city of Ecatepec, State of Mexico, on October 2, 2025. Hidden behind bars, merchants in the Mexican municipality of Ecatepec watch as gangs that extort them operate freely. They fear reprisals after nearly beating to death a suspected criminal who had been terrorizing them. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)
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  • Mexican prosecutors have launched a probe against soldiers over the shooting deaths of six people in a northern state where clashes involving drug cartels are frequent, a judicial source said Tuesday

MEXICO CITY: Mexican prosecutors have launched a probe against soldiers over the shooting deaths of six people in a northern state where clashes involving drug cartels are frequent, a judicial source said Tuesday.
The incident occurred on Monday on a highway in Tamaulipas, considered one of Mexico鈥檚 most dangerous states due to the presence of gang members involved in drug and migrant trafficking.
Numerous violent clashes involving security forces in Tamaulipas have prompted accusations of extrajudicial killings.
The troops involved in the latest deadly incident have been 鈥減laced under investigation,鈥� an official with the attorney general鈥檚 office told AFP on condition of anonymity.
A defense ministry statement said the group of soldiers was traveling on a highway when a white pickup truck 鈥渢ried to ram鈥� one of the army vehicles.
The troops sensed a threat and 鈥渦sed their weapons,鈥� the ministry said, adding that five civilians died on the spot and a sixth on the way to hospital.
In March, four Mexican soldiers were sentenced to 40 years in prison for the killing of five civilians in 2023 in Nuevo Laredo, a crime-plagued city bordering the United States.

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