15 Dead Due to Shooting in Mexico

Monday, this week, on the twisting rural Mascota-Las-Palmas highway in Mexico, fifteen police officers were murdered, and five were severely injured in a Drug War shooting. Near the village of Soyatan, a local gang open fired on a convoy carrying a state police unit on their way to Guadalajara, Mexico. Allegedly, the assailants blocked the highway with vehicles drenched with fuel and then set on fire. The suspects authorities announced were apart "Jalisco New Generation Drug Cartel," and were waiting for the convoy to makeshift encampment for one or two days. As there is still intense investigation by officials, the President Enrique Pena Nieto has made statements to the families and security forces reassuring justice. It was the worst loss in a day since the president's two-year-old administration.  

The aftermath of a burning truck that acted as a road block.