Mexican government office in Tijuana targeted in drone attack

A Mexican cartel deployed explosive devices to onslaught a authorities constabulary installation connected Wednesday, Baja California’s Attorney General confirmed Thursday. The incidental led the U.S. Consulate successful Tijuana to contented a information alert advising U.S. citizens successful the country to instrumentality precautions.

A transgression radical reportedly utilized 3 drones to motorboat a crude improvised explosive instrumentality with integrative bottles filled with nails, pellets and different metallic pieces connected the authorities lawyer general’s offices successful Mexico’s bluish borderline metropolis of Tijuana connected Wednesday night.

The instrumentality struck the bureau of the lawyer general’s anti-kidnapping unit, damaging cars but causing nary deaths oregon injuries, according to authorities Attorney General María Elena Andrade Ramírez.

Andrade Ramírez confirmed that an organized transgression radical was down the onslaught but declined to sanction it.

Following the attack, the U.S. Consulate successful Tijuana issued a information alert.

“We person received confirmation of the study of an onslaught connected offices belonging to the Baja California authorities lawyer general’s bureau successful the Playas de Tijuana area,” the consulate wrote connected the societal media level X.

The bureau warned radical to debar the country astir immoderate ongoing constabulary presence, show section media for updates and pass household and friends of their status.

Andrade Ramírez said the incidental was being investigated arsenic an enactment of coercion and stressed that the onslaught was against the bureau alternatively than immoderate peculiar agent. She besides denied reports of shots being fired aft the attack.

“It was an onslaught straight connected the patio of our installation,” said Andrade Ramírez. “As a mode to easiness the public’s mind, this was not an effort connected the residents, and we don’t judge it has thing to bash with our proximity to the border.”

The onslaught follows the vandalism of the anti-car-theft and anti-kidnapping offices of the authorities constabulary successful Ensenada, astir 60 miles southbound of Tijuana, connected September 21, erstwhile constabulary vehicles were besides acceptable connected fire.

Seven radical were detained successful transportation to that crime, according to the lawyer general.

Wednesday night’s onslaught whitethorn beryllium related to the Ensenada incidental and the arrests that followed, Andrade Ramírez said, suggesting that cartels person been retaliating against the government’s crackdown connected their illicit activities.

With reports from Reuters and Border Report