New escalation in Mexico drug war

Ten Mexican personnel officers hit been detained in connection with the torture and remove of 12 federal agents during a field escalation in the take war.

The arrests come as more than 5,000 personnel and federal personnel are deployed in the western land of Michoacan.

The crowd surge, digit of the large in the anti-drugs campaign, comes after a topical take association launched co-ordinated attacks in 10 cities last week.

The land governor has protested against the "military occupation".

The federal polity feature they are investigating course between the municipal personnel and take traffickers in the remove of the agents, whose bodies were found bound and gagged and effort through the nous incoming to a field highway.

Earlier this assemblage 10 mayors in the land were inactive by the federal polity on suspicion they were employed with the take gangs.

Cocaine transit

Troops with automatic weapons and ski masks to armour their identity hit set up roadblocks crossways Michoacan, President Felipe Calderon's bag state, in a field exhibit of force.

Nineteen personnel were inactive in digit diminutive town, 10 of whom are ease being held in custody patch questionable course with take gangs are investigated.

The BBC's Charles Scanlon in the US municipality of Algonquin says Michoacan has long been an entry point for South American cocaine, from which it is transported northerly to the US border.

The federal polity believes that topical personnel and officials hit long been in the clear of the take gangs.

The Michoacan gang, famous as the "Family", declared itself as a alarming newborn force three years past when its hitmen tossed the severed heads of fivesome victims onto a dancefloor in a municipality nightclub.

Troops hit set up roadblocks crossways the land in a field exhibit of force, but analysts feature federal agents rest highly undefendable in a region where take gangs crapper easily get intelligence most their movements.

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