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Mexican Army soldiers Vs Gulf Cartel gun men in Michoacan
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Four purported drug traffickers were killed in a shootout Monday with soldiers in Michoacán, the second deadly clash in a week between traffickers and troops in the same remote, mountainous region.
Three men and one woman were killed during the clash, said Magdalena Guzmán, spokeswoman for the state prosecutor´s office.
Plagued by drug violence, Michoacán is the target of a military-led anti-drug offensive. Last week, five soldiers, including a colonel, and a suspected drug cartel enforcer were killed in a shootout not far from Monday´s altercation.
According to authorities, the soldiers were raiding a house of suspected drug traffickers, who resisted with automatic rifle fire and grenades.
The Defense Department said in a news release that three soldiers were injured in the Monday shootout.
President Felipe Calderón has sent some 6,000 soldiers to his home state of Michoacán as part of a nationwide anti-drug crackdown involving more than 20,000 agents.
More than 900 people have died so far this year from drug violence, according to press tallies. Authorities have declined to give an official count.
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