A manhunt is ongoing in northern Mexico after state police were ambushed driving out of Santa Ana, Sonora
What started as an ambush quickly transformed into a manhunt on Wednesday afternoon, when police in Mexico’s northern border state of Sonora repelled a highway attack, then chased injured shooters into the mountains nearby. It was the second shootout in two days in a region where escalating clashes between authorities and powerful local gangs threaten to put a damper on the country's Day of the Dead celebrations.
Initially Sonora's public security department took to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, to report one member of the military had been shot dead, before hastily deleting the post. Speaking to local reporters, María Dolores Del Río, head of Sonora's security department, said the attack was a regrettable symptom of her office's crackdown on organized crime in the region.
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