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Mexico deploys security forces to Chiapas after 14 police officers abducted

MEXICO rushed federal security forces to the southern state of Chiapas following the abduction of 14 police officers on Tuesday.

The mass abduction, reportedly by gunmen who blocked a road on which the police were travelling, underlines the weakness of state authority in a region dominated by drug cartels. 

It took place between Ocozocoautla and the regional capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez. A confrontation between the National Guard and suspected drug traffickers near the former town left an officer and a civilian dead on June 19.

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