Overview
- Security sources reported the fatal explosion in Los Ocotes, a hard-to-access locality in Aquila on Michoacán’s coast.
- The deceased was identified in local reports as Domingo, about 40 years old, whose body was found next to the device.
- Army and Guardia Civil personnel secured the perimeter, located two more explosives, and Army specialists deactivated them.
- The Regional Prosecutor’s Office has launched a multidisciplinary investigation into the circumstances of the blast.
- The incident follows recent use of improvised explosives in Michoacán, including a November landmine injury in Cotija and an earlier IED that wounded two National Guard officers near the Jalisco border.