Ovidio Guzmán-López: Twenty-nine killed during arrest of El Chapo's son - BBC

Twenty-nine radical person been killed during the apprehension of the lad of Mexican drugs kingpin "El Chapo".

Ovidio Guzmán-López - himself alleged to beryllium a person of his father's erstwhile cartel - was captured successful Culiacán and flown to Mexico City connected Thursday.

During the 32-year-old's arrest, 10 soldiers and 19 suspects were killed, officials said.

In retaliation, furious pack members acceptable up roadworthy blocks, acceptable occurrence to vehicles and attacked a section airport.

A further 35 subject unit were injured and 21 gunmen were arrested, Defence Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval told a property league connected Friday.

Guzmán-López - nicknamed "The Mouse" - is accused of starring a faction of his father's notorious Sinaloa cartel. It is 1 of the largest drug-trafficking organisations successful the world.

His father, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is serving a beingness condemnation successful the US aft being recovered blameworthy successful 2019 of cause trafficking and wealth laundering. His proceedings revealed immoderate of the brutal details of however Mexico's cause cartels operate.

The six-month surveillance cognition to seizure Mr Guzmán-López had the enactment of United States officials, Mr Sandoval said.

In December, the US enactment retired a reward of up to $5m (£4.2m) for accusation starring to his apprehension oregon conviction, arsenic good arsenic that of 3 of his brothers who are besides thought to person kept their positions of bid successful the group.

The operation, which began astatine dawn successful Culiacán, successful Sinaloa state, north-west Mexico, sparked a question of unit from equipped cartel members.

Dozens of vehicles were acceptable alight and astatine slightest 2 planes astatine Sinaloa airports were deed by gunfire, successful attacks blamed connected the Sinaloa cartel. More than 100 flights were cancelled astatine section airports arsenic a result.

Two Mexican Air Force craft were forced to marque exigency landings aft they were deed by gunfire from the cartel, Defence Minister Sandoval said.

Helicopter gunships were deployed from the authorities to enactment the crushed operation.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Mexican forces had acted responsibly to look aft the civilian colonisation and debar guiltless victims. No civilian deaths person yet been reported.

A further 1,000 troops are being sent to Sinaloa to assistance with ongoing information measures.

Videos connected societal media person shown burning buses blocking roads successful Culiacán.

The fuselage of a level scheduled to alert from Culiacán to Mexico City was deed by gunfire connected Thursday greeting arsenic it was preparing for take-off, Mexican hose Aeromexico said.

No customers oregon employees had been harmed, it said. A video posted connected societal media appears to amusement passengers crouching and cowering successful their seats.

"As we were accelerating for take-off, we heard gunshots precise adjacent to the plane, and that's erstwhile we each threw ourselves to the floor," 1 of the passengers, David Tellez, told Reuters quality agency.

An aerial unit level was besides deed successful Culiacán, Mexico's civilian aviation bureau said.

US President Joe Biden is owed to sojourn Mexico for a North American leaders' acme adjacent week. He volition present get connected Sunday, a time earlier than antecedently expected, according to a tweet by Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard. No crushed was fixed for wherefore helium was arriving early.

There were blockades successful antithetic parts of the metropolis and residents were urged to enactment astatine home. Many shops were besides looted and gunfire exchanges took spot betwixt information forces and pack members.

All schools crossed the full authorities of Sinaloa were closed connected Friday, the section authorities assemblage overseeing acquisition said.

Mexican information forces had antecedently arrested Guzmán-López successful 2019 but released him to debar the menace of unit from his supporters.

The US State Department says helium and his member Joaquín are presently overseeing astir 11 methamphetamine labs successful the authorities of Sinaloa, producing an estimated 1,300- 2,200kg (3,000-5,000lb) of the cause per month.

They person besides said that accusation indicates Mr Guzmán-López ordered the murders of informants, a cause trafficker and a fashionable Mexican vocalist who refused to sing astatine his wedding.

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