10 people were killed in a gunfight in western Mexico when suspected gang members ambushed a police convoy, the government said on Friday.
5 members of Mexico's militarized police, or gendarmerie, were killed in the shootout in Ocotlan, Jalisco state, and eight others were wounded, the National Security Commission said in a statement.
3 suspected gang members, and two bystanders who apparently had nothing to do with the ambush, were also killed. The gendarmerie were patrolling the town southeast of the state capital Guadalajara, the commission said.
Jalisco has been plagued by fighting between the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel and the Knights Templar, a drug gang from the neighboring state of Michoacan that has been gradually weakened by the capture or killing of its leaders.
More than 100 000 people have been killed in gang-related violence in Mexico over the past eight years.
Reuters
