3 Police Officers Killed in Attack on Western Mexico Highway

3 Police Officers Killed in Attack on Western Mexico Highway
Federal police officers stands guard outside the ranch where gunmen took cover during an intense gun battle with the police, along the Jalisco-Michoacan highway in Vista Hermosa, Michoacan State, Mexico, on May 22, 2015. Hector Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images
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MEXICO CITY—A state police officer and her two bodyguards were killed in a highway attack in Mexico’s violent western state of Michoacan, security officials said Monday.

Michoacan’s state security agency said on X, formerly Twitter, that three members of the state Civil Guard had died in the line of duty Sunday night. One of them, Cristal García Hurtado, was a regional police commander. Local press reported that she had been decapitated.