Sinaloa: 8 campesinos assassinated in Tepuche reportedly by "Los Chapitos"

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat material from  Línea Directa porta

At least 8 peasants were assassinated by way of execution in at least three communities, heading to the highlands of the Tepuche syndicate, in the framework of the war between two organized crime cells. Allegedly gunned down by “Los Chapitos”

In the afternoon of this Wednesday the residents began to make calls to the police corporations of the presence of an armed group that entered the towns of La Vainilla, Bagrecitos and La Mojonera, of this union.

It is said that there are several missing persons, it is unknown if they were abducted or fled the area.

According to the residents of both areas, the confrontations were recorded from 10 in the morning, where dozens of armed men in various units participated and who after the events, fled along the roads of the mountain area.
In the Bagrecitos community, residents indicated that around 10 in the morning a large group of armed men arrived at the town, executing the majority of the men who were in the ranch, who were left lying on the paved road that communicates to San Cayetano, in the patios of the houses, between hills and inside the houses.

The bodies of two young men were left with the same number of motorcycles, one green and one black, lying on the asphalt tape in the middle of the road, another one was left on a hill located on the side of the road, one more by a fence of barbed wire that delimits the patio of a house, another inside the patio of the same, one more among some banana trees that are located behind this mentioned house and two more inside a house located to the east of the town.

The residents indicated that seven of the eight people who were found in the place are residents of this site, but they also pointed out that among the roads and streams of the place there are more fallen bodies and according to data the armed group came shooting at the residents who were they found on the road and others in the houses that had multiple bullet holes in the facades and windows.

Almost at the same time, a clash between antagonistic groups was allegedly recorded near the town of La Vainilla, located between the community of Paso del Norte and the El Varejonal dam, where seven people died.

Unofficially, it was also said that a complete BOMU made up of various units and elements of different federal, state and municipal police corporations did not show up in the Sierra de Tepuche to control the situation.