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Michoacán Mobilizes Victim Services and Security to Coahuayana After Community Police Blast as FGR Takes Over Investigation

Officials report no civilian fatalities in the explosion near the Community Police command.

Overview

  • State personnel and the Executive Commission for Victim Assistance are on site providing integrated medical follow-up as well as psychological, legal and social support to direct and indirect victims.
  • Authorities activated an urgent response protocol, airlifting and transporting the injured to hospitals for specialized care following Saturday’s explosion.
  • The Public Security Secretariat says operations continue in Coahuayana with federal forces, and the governor traveled to the area as the state human-rights commission began rights monitoring.
  • The state prosecutor said the federal attorney general’s office assumed the case due to the use of explosives, reporting five fatalities, including three Community Police members and two unidentified persons, and seven people injured.
  • Investigators counted 12 damaged vehicles, traced the suspected vehicle’s entry from Colima using cameras, and deployed roughly 30 specialists to collect evidence with coordination reported with federal security leaders.