Police commander reportedly beheaded and her 2 bodyguards killed in highway attack in Mexico
A state police officer and her two bodyguards were killed in a highway attack in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan, security officials said Monday.
Michoacan’s state security agency said on social media that three members of the state Civil Guard had died in the line of duty Sunday night. One of them, Cristal García Hurtado, was a regional police commander. Local press reported that she had been decapitated.
The attack occurred on the highway connecting the towns of Patzcuaro and Uruapan.