Five police officers are ambushed and burned to death in a patrol car in Chiapas.

TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis., (apro) .- Five members of the State Preventive Police (PEP), four men and a woman, were burned to death inside a patrol car after being ambushed this Monday by an armed group in the Sabinalito ejido and the town of Las Champas, in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, on the border with Guatemala.

The attack, confirmed by Governor Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar from the municipality of Las Rosas, where he was visiting, was attributed to an organized crime group that fled to the Guatemalan side.

"I will not allow acts of violence to return to Chiapas; that is over, and we are not afraid; there will be a strong and decisive response," he said, announcing that he had issued instructions to the secretary of security, the attorney general, and the Pakal Immediate Reaction Force.

Ramírez Aguilar stated on social media that the attack occurred on the road leading to the Sabinalito community in Frontera Comalapa, "where state police officers were attacked and ambushed."

The Sabinito ejido, in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, has been under a four-year struggle for control of the border between Mexico and Guatemala between the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel-Chiapas Guatemala Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel.

The town's Security Secretariat reported that it activated an immediate response and deployed more than 1,000 officers to the area to control the situation, provide support to the affected officers, and ensure the safety of the population.

For its part, the State Attorney General's Office (FGE) announced it had opened an investigation into these violent incidents, and that specialized personnel had been deployed to the scene of the attack to gather evidence and clarify the case.

On social media, fellow police officers of the deceased released their names, stating that they died in the line of duty.

“Rest in peace to the fallen comrades aboard Unit 23057: Guillermo Cortes Morales, Jesús Sanchez Pérez, Joel Martinez Pérez, Brenda Lizbeth Toalla Blanco, and Pedro Hernández Hernández.