MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Two aged ladies from Arizona have been shot lifeless in a automobile alongside a freeway in Mexico’s northern Sonora state, native prosecutors stated on Friday, including that they had instantly launched an operation to search out these accountable.
State prosecutors stated the ladies, recognized with out their surnames as Enedina, aged 72, and Ubaldina, aged 82, have been present in an overturned white Nissan (OTC:) Pathfinder off the aspect of the freeway. The incident was reported at 10:30 a.m.
The ladies have been of twin U.S.-Mexican nationality, a neighborhood safety supply informed Reuters.
The freeway the place the ladies have been discovered, a stretch from the city of Sonoyta by the border with Arizona to town of Caborca, is notorious for violence and the trafficking of migrants trying to find higher alternatives and safety in the US.
The 2 ladies have been initially from Caborca, prosecutors stated in a press release.
Nationwide Guard and armed forces officers responding to the incident discovered a navy blue Ford (NYSE:) F-150 within the neighborhood that had been reported stolen in addition to an AK-47 and ammunition, prosecutors stated.
“Safety forces from three ranges of presidency instantly initiated an operation to find and arrest the prison group accountable, with the help of specialised air and floor forces,” Sonora state prosecutors stated.