Reports of a heavily armed column of gunmen advancing on Cananea, Sonora, were “a joke made in poor taste,” the city’s mayor said Friday afternoon.
At shortly after 10 a.m. Friday, Mayor Luis Cha Flores issued a state of alert for his city after receiving what were then described as credible reports that a convoy of rogue gunmen had entered a town 10 miles west of Cananea. But by early afternoon, Cha Flores was calling the reports a false alarm, and urged the people of Cananea to return to their normal activities, the Hermosillo newspaper El Imparcial reported on its website.
Sonora state attorney general Abel Murrieta Gutierrez had earlier dismissed the reports as unreliable. |