The violent events that occurred on Monday in Cárdenas they left as a balance at least four people dead: two bus passengers and two alleged criminals who were killed in a confrontation with federal forces.
He Tabasco government confirmed that last night there was also a shootout between elements of the 57th Infantry Battalion and alleged criminals who intended to burn vehicles on the Cárdenas-Coatzacoalcos highway.
However, the version remains that there was no direct attack on the military installations and order could be restored during the early hours of this Tuesday.
The riots began in the afternoon and photos of the bus and a burning crane quickly went viral. The fear that generated burning of at least 8 units In different parts of the municipality it caused chaos, so transport unions and trucking centers suspended their nightly runs, leaving dozens of people stranded.
On social networks, citizens organized to support them, especially young students who had no way to get home, offering them accommodation until this day, to which some hotels also joined.
In the same way the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) is in the process of identifying the two people who burned to death in the TRT unit, owned by the ADO group, near the community of Santa Rosalía.
However, again social media users identified one of the victims as Jessica Dominguezoriginally from the municipality of Cunduacán, who was allegedly traveling in that passenger vehicle with her eleven-year-old son.
The first versions suggest that the truck was intercepted by armed men that forced users to get off and set fireHowever, the woman could not get out in time and only managed to throw the child out of the window to save his life; Although she tried to escape in the same way, the flames reached her.
The authorities have not yet given a detailed version of what happened, but the spokesperson and technical secretary, Juan Carlos Castillejos Castillejos, assured that the origin of this violence was the arrest of four members of a criminal group and two more who were killed.
He pointed out that the burning of the units was recorded as a result of an operation mounted by federal forces in the town C-21, so the SEDENA, National Guard and Navy mounted an operation in the demarcation in response to the response of the criminals.
During the night they heard firearm detonations and a Navy helicopter flew over the municipality.
