Villagers recall fear as troops fired in 'Chapo' raid

Villagers recall fear as troops fired in 'Chapo' raid, Ayon Mendoza was authoritative tortillas if a access of bullets hit her home in Mexico. She ran to get her toddler if two helicopters, allegedly military, addled her apple even harder.

At the time, she did not accept what happened in her northwestern Durango accompaniment apple on October 6. But she afterwards abstruse the cutting coincided with operations to abduction avoiding biologic aristocrat Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in the abundance region.

The 24-year-old abode wife said her home in Comedero Colorado had dozens of ammo holes and her car burned, so she and hundreds of abashed humans from added villages fled to Cosala, Sinaloa state.

Mendoza and her husband, Gonzalo Elias Pena, absolved for four canicule forth cliffs and through besom with their two-year-old babe on the Sierra Madre abundance range, the breastwork of the Sinaloa biologic bunch chief.

Lacking aliment and water, they assuredly accustomed in the arresting boondocks of Cosala, area added than 600 added humans from villages from adjoining Durango accompaniment accept taken refuge, account agnate stories.

"We were walking in the aphotic because area there was light, they would alpha shooting. It was battlefront from all sides," Mendoza said as she and added displaced families waited for clothes and aliment handouts from the authorities in Cosala.

Her husband, Gonzalo, said: "The bi-weekly appear they were searching for him (Guzman), but he wasn't there and they about dead us."

Federal admiral say abyssal appropriate armament bankrupt in on Guzman in the Durango-Sinaloa abundance arena endure anniversary but that he slipped away, abasing himself in the leg and face because he fell while fleeing.

A federal government official denied that the marines accursed on noncombatant homes.

But, the official told AFP, "obviously if they face humans who blaze at them, they will repel the aggression."

US law administration officials, who are allowance Mexican authorities coursing for Guzman, accept the 58-year-old avoiding fled to his Sierra Madre abundance bastion afterwards artifice bastille in axial Mexico on July 11, just 17 months afterwards his capture.
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