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Members of the Mexican Army stand guard at the site where four police officers and eight alleged members of the organized crime were killed, and six others were wounded, in a confrontation in El Salto, Jalisco state, Mexico, on June 23, 2022. Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images
MEXICO CITY—Four police in western Mexico are dead after they were drawn into an ambush-style shooting late Wednesday.
Luis Joaquín Méndez, the chief prosecutor of the western state of Jalisco, said four municipal policemen in the city of El Salto responded to a call about armed men at a house. Once they arrived, a woman answered the door and told them nothing was wrong.