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Mexico Sees Deadly Road Crashes, Arrests in Shootings, and Unrest as Storms Batter Chiapas

Officials report arrests tied to the violence, with probes opened across multiple jurisdictions.

Overview

  • A passenger bus from Autotransportes Sur crashed into a tractor-trailer on the MéxicoCuautla highway near San Miguel Nepantla, injuring 16 people including four in serious condition, as regional prosecutors opened an investigation.
  • In Tlalpan, a water tanker ran over two motorcyclists on the México–Cuernavaca road, killing a woman and a man; the SSC detained the driver and referred him to the Public Ministry.
  • In Iztapalapa, SSC officers arrested a 31-year-old suspected of fatally shooting a 23-year-old woman, while Jalisco’s Feminicide Command captured Kevin Israel “N,” 20, over a tianguis shooting that left a vendor dead and another person wounded.
  • Tijuana police located two men bound inside a building after an attempted escape; one victim was killed and officers, aided by camera monitoring, detained the alleged assailants nearby.
  • In Chiapas, comuneros blocked the route del Café and held the Chapultepec ranch owner in a land-use dispute as heavy rains linked to tropical weather flooded roads and cut access to several communities.