(3 Dec 2019) Coahuila Governor Miguel Riquelme on Tuesday toured Villa Union, the small town near the US-Mexico border where 22 people were killed in a weekend gun battle between a heavily armed drug cartel assault group and security forces.
He walked through the Villa Union's city hall which is riddled with bullet holes, as workers fixed the damaged walls and its exterior.
Some residents approached to speak with him.
"We've had, for a long time, the warning from the Northeast Cartel --with rumours and presence in the north of the state, even clashes at Hidalgo and Guerrero on the last months - the warning that the want to enter to Coahuila," he said during his visit.
Around midday Saturday, a convoy of dozens of vehicles carrying heavily armed men arrived in Villa Union and began shooting up the city hall.
Riquelme said state security forces arrived within an hour and surrounded the town, which is about an hour's drive southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas.
At one point there were more than 550 members of the military in the territory, said Riquelme.
Some of the homes and businesses in the town of about 6,000 people were still littered with bullet holes.
Residents of Villa Union was still seized by fear even with soldiers and Federal Police patrolling the town's quiet streets.
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