Mexican Army Sends Anti-Mine Squads to Cartel Turf War Zone

Mexican Army Sends Anti-Mine Squads to Cartel Turf War Zone
Mexican soldiers patrol near Naranjo de Chila in the municipality of Aguililla, Mexico, on Feb. 18, 2022. Armando Solis/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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NARANJO DE CHILA, Mexico—Special squads of Mexican army troops equipped with metal detectors and bomb suits have deployed to the western state of Michoacan, where warring drug cartels have planted land mines or improvised explosive devices.

The squads apparently have found dozens of such devices along rural roads and fields in the area around the township of Aguililla.