Guatemalan police attack left two policemen dead

Two officials of the National Civil Police (PNC) in Guatemala killed and three seriously wounded, is the balance of two separate shooting attacks against units of the institution occurred today (10/03) in this capital, an official source .

"Gunmen with assault rifles attacked two units at different points but about the same time. Unfortunately an officer and an officer were killed when they were admitted to the (room) emergency San Juan de Dios Hospital, told Acan-Efe PNC spokesman Donald Gonzalez.

The first attack occurred in a residential neighborhood of downtown Guatemala City, when unknown ambushed the vehicle which led three members of the Special Criminal Investigation Division (deice) investigating a murder.

The commanding officer of the group, identified as Pineda Gustavo, 32, and Officer Noe Blanco, 28, died in the emergency room medical center, while the third officer was seriously injured.

Almost at the same time, on a busy street in western Baghdad, two agents of the PNC to driving a patrol car, were shot by a group of armed men driving a car. The two officers were admitted to a nearby hospital with serious injuries. According to Gonzalez, minutes after he was found in the vicinity of the attack a vehicle that was abandoned by its occupants, within which were found three assault rifles.

President Alvaro Colom said this morning that "powerful mafias" that have been affected by the security forces would be planning attacks to destabilize the government. These groups, which did not identify, claimed Colom planning an attack against leftist Congresswoman Ninth Montenegro which was reported on Monday (03/08). sm

With information from Reuters

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