Cartels Use Car Bomb, Suicide Bomber to Attack Police in Western Mexico

An apparent suicide bomber drove a vehicle full of explosives towards a community police station in Western Mexico and set it off. The bomb killed the suicide bomber and two other victims, and injured ten others. The suicide attack using car bombs marks an escalation in the way drug cartels have been fighting authorities in Mexico.

It remains unclear which cartel was behind the attack. Two leading criminal organizations, Carteles Unidos and Cartel Jalisco New Generation, are actively fighting for control of that region. Both cartels have previously been designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. government.

The attack took place shortly after 11:40 a.m. outside of the community police building in Coahuayana, Michoacan, information provided to Breitbart Texas by Mexico’s At