Ten troopers and 19 prison suspects have been killed in the operation to arrest Ovidio Guzman, son of jailed drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican government said Friday.

Ovidio Guzman, nicknamed “El Raton” (The Mouse), had allegedly helped to run his father’s operations since El Chapo was extradited to the United States in 2017.

The 32-year-old was rounded up Thursday in the northwestern metropolis of Culiacan and flown to Mexico City on a army airplane following six months of intelligence work to observe him down, the federal government mentioned.

“Ten members of the army… sadly misplaced their lives in the road of obligation,” Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval told reporters, adding 19 “lawbreakers” have been additionally killed in the operation.

The United States had a reward out of up to $5 million for info main to Ovidio Guzman’s seize. It accuses him of being a key participant in the notorious Sinaloa cartel.

Gunfire and arson shook Culiacan after the arrest, which got here as Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ready to welcome his US counterpart Joe Biden subsequent week for a North America leaders’ summit the place safety is predicted to be excessive on the agenda.

Initial reviews have been {that a} National Guardsman was killed and at the very least 28 folks wounded in the violence, whereas college lessons have been suspended.

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