3 farmers killed by roadside bomb in Mexico days after 4 soldiers die in explosive “trap” likely set by cartel
Three farmers were killed Tuesday by a bomb apparently planted in a dirt road in the cartel-dominated western Mexico state of Michoacan, marking the second time in just five days that hidden explosive devices have caused multiple fatalities in the region.
A state security official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said the blast occurred in the rural township of Tumbiscatio.
Graphic photos of the scene posted on social media suggest the blast was so powerful that it blew the farmer’s truck in half and flipped it, and blew the victims’ limbs off.
It was the latest instance of what appears to be an increasing use of improvised explosive devices by drug cartels battling for control of Michoacan.
It came just days after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged that an improvised explosive device killed at least four soldiers in what he called a “trap” likely set by a cartel in Michoacan.
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