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The State Attorney General’s Office announced that this friday afternoon an armed command assaulted the municipal palace of Pichucalco, Chiapas, and stole the year-end payroll that had to be paid to the agency’s personnel.
The authorities’ report states that at least eight hooded individuals arrived on motorcycles at the municipal government offices and took the policeman guarding the site by surprise.
Likewise, it is mentioned that the event occurred around 5:30 p.m., when some people were still working in the offices.
It is indicated that the armed command burst in violently and threatened to open fire at the employee in charge of the safe where the payroll money was kept.
Immediately afterwards, pointing a high-caliber weapon at the head of the municipal employee, The presumed leader of the thugs managed to get him to give him a sum equivalent to the equivalent of $105,000 dollars, which corresponded to the payroll of the personnel who work in the municipality.
Having achieved their objective, the members of the command left in a hurry, but Before fleeing, they shot the only policeman who was on the spot and who naively lost his life trying to chase them.
Minutes after the tragic episode, other members of the authorities arrived at the scene and in the middle of the inquiries managed to detain a person suspected of having participated in the assault, who was immediately handed over to the state police in order to gather as much information as possible to identify those responsible for the robbery, as well as the murder of officer Edi Hari “N”.
It is noteworthy that the thugs abandoned the motorcycles on which they arrived at the site of their robbery and used a pick-up truck to escape, which is searched throughout the northern area of Chiapas.
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