By “El Huaso” for Borderland Beat
The attack occurred on Friday night when Policía Estatal Preventiva police officers, aboard a patrol car, were responding to a report of an abandoned vehicle on a dirt road between the communities of Julián Adame and Barranquilla. Security sources told Proceso that as the patrol passed by the site, a vehicle loaded with explosives, which had been placed and detonated by the attackers, exploded. The attackers fled before reinforcement security forces could arrive.
The following day, a shootout between Fuerza de Reacción Inmediata de Zacatecas (FRIZ) and a group of gunmen left five criminals dead in Noria del Agostadero, a town located in the mountainous area shared by the Zacatecas municipalities of Calera de Víctor Rosales and Jerez de García Salinas.
