Be 'terrorist', all the police in a town with resignation

The entire 20 police in a town north of Mexico has resigned after a row happens a series of attacks that the police chief and five other employees were killed within 3 months.

According to Chihuahua state chief prosecutor, Carlos Manuel Salas, the resignation of the police yesterday that town with 13,000 inhabitants Ascension no security forces. Chihuahua and federal police have been dispatched to Mexico to undertake the job of maintaining order. The resignation is simultaneously involved in an attack on Tuesday (2 / 8) by gunmen and three police were killed.

However, it is not deadly attacks first at the police station in Ascension year. In mid-May, the police chief Manuel Martinez just took over about seven months, was shot down, along with two other policemen on a highway. All three people were kidnapped the same day before police found their bodies with multiple bullet holes located in the back seat of a car, baby.

Before the incident, people were angry the government requires Ascension replace the entire police force in September last year, after two youths kidnapped a girl and carried out the murder. At that time, people have accused police support for drug cartels.

The entire town police Ascension, Mexico resign because of criminal attack.(Illustration)

When appointed, Martinez with the new police force says he wants an end to kidnappings and extortion was the town of Ascension terrorism, where people mainly employed in chili and cotton.They installed a camera in astronomy town square, so that it can help the police sitting in the office to observe the outskirts of town. In addition, people also help the police dug a wide ditch around Ascension to prevent criminals escaping.

The town of Ascension lies in the southwest of Ciudad Juarez (Chihuahua State), is one of the most violent city in Mexico. Government Chihuahua, the state rate of the biggest murders in Mexico, blamed organized crime and drug trafficking gangs have caused violence since the Mexican government shall suppress drug-related crimes in 12/2006.

In another development, Mexico's defense ministry announced a campaign against the Zetas drug gang last 19 days in the northern states has ended, leaving 30 criminal and a soldier were killed. The military also said that among those killed have Jorge Luis de la Pena, Zetas gang boss. In addition, the soldiers also arrested 196 people in different cities in a campaign called "North Lynx."