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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican immigration officials say five gunmen on motorcycles brazenly attacked a government vehicle transporting 25 immigrants and a suspected human trafficker, helping the smuggler and migrants to escape.
A Tuesday statement from Mexico's National Immigration Institute says agents had detained the migrants from unspecified countries as well as their smuggler after a brief chase in the southern state of Oaxaca on Monday.
Later, as immigration agents transported those detained, five people on motorcycles attacked the vehicle with gunfire. Two agents were wounded — one by a bullet and another hit on the head with the butt of a pistol.
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