Two Coahuila police officers were injured during another confrontation in El Callejón.

HIDALGO, Coah., (apro) .- Two state police officers were injured, three long weapons were seized, and several live and fired cartridges were the result of a new confrontation in the border municipality of Hidalgo, in one of the border gaps with the state of Nuevo León and almost 20 kilometers away from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, where one of the individuals killed last Thursday in the second of three confrontations reported in recent days was from.

It was around 4:30 a.m. this Saturday when the confrontation occurred in the area where a heavy security presence has been in place since last Thursday, following the attack that left two members of the Mexican Army injured .

In a press conference, Coahuila Attorney General Federico Fernández Montañez announced that one of the officers was airlifted to Saltillo for a facial injury, while the other remains in a hospital in Piedras Negras, where the injuries to his left foot are reported to be minor.

Coahuila Attorney General Federico Fernández Montañez stated that state troops were patrolling the breach located more than three hours from the city of Piedras Negras, where they observed a white pickup truck similar to the one used the previous Thursday, from which military personnel were attacked at the El Callejón breach.

"The chase began, and in the dust that arose, the state police officers didn't realize the truck had stopped and were surprised by gunfire. We have no arrests; we don't know the number of occupants, and the governor has deployed two helicopters to patrol the area," he said.

The state official said that in an interview this Saturday morning with General Fernando Colchado Gómez, commander of the XI Military Region, who informed him that surveillance work in the area is being coordinated with military authorities stationed in Nuevo León, as well as the Secretariat of Security and the Attorney General's Office of said state will support the actions undertaken to strengthen surveillance in the area, to which elements that carried out security work in the municipalities of the coal region and five springs have been transferred.

The prosecutor declined to identify the criminal group to which the attackers belong and said they are still conducting investigations and interviewing those previously detained.

"We are conducting investigations and interviews to determine the criminal group. We are not in favor of mentioning names because it is not a question of giving credit to criminal groups, as people may want to be mentioned and broadcast," she stated.

On Thursday, around 6:30 a.m., armed individuals attacked military personnel patrolling the El Callejón breach, where several units were being patrolled, leaving two members injured.

Hours later, a confrontation erupted between federal and state authorities and armed individuals when security personnel were loading fuel in the community of Colombia, in the municipality of Anáhuac, Nuevo León.

As a result of the second incident, a civilian was reported killed. He was identified as Hernán Humberto, originally from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. His body has not been claimed. Ricardo "N," 25, was injured in the confrontation.

Fernández Montañez stated that as a result of the patrol that same day, two women, Guadalupe Elizabeth and Cecilia Guadalupe, ages 32 and 18, were arrested. Their communication radios were found, as well as Francisco Javier, age 52.