Entire police force quits in Mexican town after drug cartel attack

On Monday night, police headquarters in Los Ramones in the state of Nuevo Leon was hit with more than 1,000 bullets and six grenades. The attack lasted a harrowing 20 minutes. Incredibly, no officers were injured in the assault.

Los Ramones Mayor Santos Salinas told the Noroeste newspaper: “Fortunately, those who were inside the building threw themselves on the ground and nobody was hurt.”

However, the attack resulted in the resignation of the town’s entire 14-member police force.

The new headquarters had been opened only three days earlier. Nuevo Leon, has been devastated by the ongoing war between the Gulf and Zetas drug cartels, and Monday’s attack was the second on a police station in the region in less than a week.

In 2008, Villa Ahumada Police Chief Jesus Blanco Cano was shot to death after only one day on the job. The town is located in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua which is the territory of the very violent and powerful Juarez drug cartel.

The town had been without a police chief for months, after a band of 70 gunmen raided the town and murdered the previous chief, along with two of his officers as well as several civilians. After the attack, the rest of the town´s 20-officer police force resigned.

 

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