Overview
- Officials confirmed five dead and several wounded after a vehicle exploded outside the Community Police base in Coahuayana around midday Saturday, damaging nearby buildings and cars.
- The federal attorney general’s office opened a terrorism case and deployed specialized explosives experts to work alongside the Michoacán state prosecutor’s team.
- The national security ministry said preliminary analysis does not support a vehicle-borne bomb and pointed instead to a projectile fired from outside the facility, a conclusion still under review.
- Naval helicopters and federal forces secured the area and airlifted injured people to higher-capacity hospitals as coordinated patrols and checkpoints remained in place.
- No group has claimed responsibility; local community police leaders blamed CJNG, but investigators have not issued a conclusive attribution.