Source: CBS News
“An improvised land mine apparently planted by a drug cartel killed two Mexican soldiers and wounded five others, Mexico’s defense secretary said Tuesday. Before the blast, the soldiers had discovered the dismembered bodies of three people, officials said. Gen. Ricardo Trevilla acknowledged that the army had already suffered six deaths from such improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, between 2018 and 2024. But he didn’t specify whether those six had been killed by bombs dropped from drones, or by buried roadside bombs, both of which have been used by gangs in Mexico. Trevilla said that devices like the one that exploded Monday were ‘very rustic,’ and officials in the past have described them as similar to buried pipe bombs.” (12/18/24)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/explosion-kills-soldiers-booby-trap-drug-cartel-mexico/