Overview

• Guardia Civil officers came under fire from a hillside near Zirahuén, prompting a minutes-long confrontation and a rapid security deployment.
• Accomplices seized trucks and buses to block routes including Morelia–Quiroga at Capula, Pátzcuaro–Uruapan, Pátzcuaro–Erongarícuaro and Quiroga–Zacapu, with separate closures in the Apatzingán region after a Buenavista pursuit.
• Armed men tried to torch a water tanker in Capula, but people at the scene used the tanker’s own water to extinguish the flames, and authorities reported no casualties.
• Guardia Civil, National Guard, Army and the state prosecutor’s office cleared the obstructions, towed vehicles and recovered two abandoned pickups as searches continued in mountainous terrain.
• The state government said transit was restored in Coeneo, Huaniqueo, Morelia, Pátzcuaro and Buenavista, while public security authorities reported securing a criminal camp in the Zirahuén area.