Violence in Mexico: Two car bombs explode in Guanajuato

At least three police officers were injured, one in serious condition, after a car bomb exploded outside a police station in the town of Acambaro, in the central state of Guanajuato (Mexico). The town has been rocked by violence linked to organized crime. 

"Car bomb attack outside the Acámbaro public security building, 3 police officers are injured, of which a female who was taken seriously to a hospital and two males with superficial injuries," the Acámbaro public security secretary said on social media. 

The agency added that no civilians were injured in the explosion which did cause damage to the police station, four homes and seven vehicles.

Guanajuato, a thriving industrial center that is also home to some popular tourist destinations, is currently considered the most violent state in Mexico, according to official homicide statistics published by AFP.

According to the newly elected president of Mexico, socialist Claudia Sheinbaum, this is not an act of terrorism. She said, in statements reported by El Universal, that a report with the details of the investigation will be presented next week.

Meanwhile, the head of the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Omar Garcia Harfuch, said that it was a confrontation between criminal gangs.

"In these aggressions that took place in Guanajuato, this is a dispute over territory, this is about drugs. Terrorism has ideological, religious, etcetera overtones, here it is a dispute between two criminal groups to fight each other and intimidate the authorities, either because some local authority is involved with another group or because the authorities themselves are fighting them," said Garcia Harfuch.

"That is to say, they are not disputing more than the sale of drugs, the sale of hydrocarbons and they are two criminal groups confronting each other," the security secretary added.