Cartel henchmen unleash violence after top drug lord killed in Mexico
World,Mexico,Drug Cartels,El Mencho
Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), one of the most powerful and feared criminal organisations in Mexico, have unleashed a wave of violence across 20 Mexican states.
They torched businesses and erected burning blockades in retaliation to the killing of their leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as "El Mencho", who died in custody on Sunday shortly after being captured by Mexican special forces.
El Mencho, Mexico's most wanted man, was seriously injured in a firefight between his bodyguards and the military commandos deployed to capture him.
He died while the military was transporting him from the town of Tapalpa, in Jalisco state, to the capital, Mexico City.
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