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Around 40 people were killed on Friday, in what authorities describe as a rampant and large-scale shootout, between the law enforcement and criminal suspects in western part of Mexico.
Almost all of the dead were suspected criminals, said a Federal Police official, who requested anonymity since he was not permitted to speak about the matter. Though the entire matter remains under ambiguity, insights state that the confrontation started when the federal police officers tried to pull over a truck on the highway, just near the ranch. As police got close, people inside the truck opened fire and the shootout began.
The confrontation is supposed to have occurred near the borders of Michoacan and Jalisco states, an area that is being known to be dominated by the Jalisco New Generation cartel, which has mounted several large-scale attacks on federal and state forces in the few recent weeks.
