Video Captures Juarez Bomb Explosion As Medics Tend To Injured Man
Mexican Army officials say initial forensic studies reveal 10 kilos (22 pounds) of C-4 which were detonated via cell phone in the deadly attack on federal police in Juarez Thursday night, according to Notimex news agency in Mexico.
Watch video of the explosion caught on tape ; graphic content.
Juarez’s mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said on Friday morning that emergency personnel were called to an area of the city before a car bomb exploded.
“The violence is escalating,” he told CNN.
Ferriz said three people – two police officers and a paramedic – were killed by the bomb blast and there was a person at the scene who was dead before the explosion.
Two police patrol pickup trucks and a charred vehicle were recovered from the scene, according to Chihuahua State Police. Also recovered were four shell casings from two different weapons.
The incident happened around 8 p.m. Before the incident, a call to the city’s emergency center reported “lots of shooting and killing,” Reyes told CNN.
When the federal police responded, there was a suspicious car there. One of them went to go check it out and when he opened the door, that’s when the bomb went off,” Reyes said.
A claim of responsibility scribbled in a graffiti message was later found in downtown Juarez. It was purportedly signed by the Juarez drug cartel.
“This is significant because usually its La Linea, the Juarez cartel’s operatives that sign the messages,” Reyes told CNN. “It’s as if to say, ‘Now it’s the big guys in charge, not the operatives.'”
Federal police spokesman Ramon Salinas said the blast in the Mexican border city took place as authorities were responding to “some sort of emergency.”
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