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Raid uncovers workshop for drone-carried bombs in Mexico house built to look like a castle
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Date:2025-04-17 08:32:18
A police raid on a house built to look like a castle uncovered a workshop for making drone-carried bombs, authorities in Mexico's western state of Jalisco said Wednesday.
State police distributed photos of 40 small cylindrical bombs with fins meant to be released from drones. Police also found bomb-making materials, including about 45 pounds of metal shrapnel and 15 pounds of gunpowder.
A suspect was spotted running into the house but he apparently escaped out the back, and no arrests were made, officials said.
Jalisco state police, the Mexican Army and the National Guard worked together to secure the ranch where "elaborate explosives and materials" were found, the Jalisco Secretary of Security wrote on social media.
Video posted by the secretary shows security forces outside the castle-like house, which appears to have a watch tower and sweeping views of the town. The video also shows dozens of bombs and buckets of bomb-making equipment found in the house.
Policías del Estado, en conjunto con el Ejército Mexicano y la Guardia Nacional, aseguraron una finca donde se hallaron explosivos elaborados y materiales para confeccionarlos, en #Teocaltiche.🚨
— Secretaría de Seguridad Jalisco (@SSeguridadJal) October 4, 2023
Lo asegurado fue puesto a disposición de las autoridades ministeriales. pic.twitter.com/OTAHxTwXad
The raid occurred Wednesday in Teocaltiche, a town in an area where the Jalisco and Sinaloa drug cartels have been fighting bloody turf battles. In August, five youths went missing in the nearby city of Lagos de Moreno, and videos surfaced later suggesting their captors may have forced the victims to kill each other.
In August, the Mexican army said drug cartels have increased their use of drone-carried bombs, which were unknown in Mexico prior to 2020. In the first eight months of this year, 260 attacks were recorded using the technology.
However, even that number may be an underestimate. Residents in some parts of the neighboring state of Michoacán say attacks by bomb-dropping drones are a near daily occurrence.
Attacks with roadside bombs or improvised explosive devices also rose this year, with 42 soldiers, police and suspects wounded by IEDs, up from 16 in 2022.
The army figures provided appeared to include only those wounded by explosive devices. Officials have acknowledged that at least one National Guard officer and four state police officers have been killed in two separate explosive attacks this year.
Six car bombs have been found so far in 2023, up from one in 2022. However, car bombs were also occasionally used years ago in northern Mexico.
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