MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican authorities are investigating an incident in Tamaulipas, a northern state bordering the U.S., where six people were fatally shot by an army convoy, renewing debate over the military’s role in areas afflicted by crime.
President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday pledged to review the military’s actions during her daily press conference.
“We have a legal system where the authority, if it has an arrest warrant or is seeing that there is a crime in flagrante delicto, acts to detain the responsible party or parties, and the use of the firearm has to be rational. There is a law that establishes under what conditions,” she said.
The defense ministry’s regional office in Tamaulipas said in a statement on Tuesday that the shooting occurred on Monday night after a whit