A high-ranking member of the Mexican navy was recently killed on the Port of Manzanillo, along Mexico’s Pacific Coast.
The incident happened a couple of month after one other federal official was murdered in the identical port city.
Fernando Ruben Guerrero was driving his vehicle around noon on Nov. 8 when armed assailants allegedly caught up with him and shot him. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
Authorities are still investigating the incident.
Guerrero is a rear admiral within the Mexican navy. From September 2022 to August 2023, Guerrero was the customs director for the Port of Veracruz, positioned along the Gulf of Mexico.
Guerrero left the Port of Veracruz for a position on the National Customs Agency of Mexico, in accordance with media reports.
“The Secretariat of the Navy deeply regrets the death of one in every of its members, who tragically lost his life while traveling on public roads aboard his private vehicle, within the port of Manzanillo, Colima; attributable to gunshot wounds,” the Mexican Navy said on a post on X.
Manzanillo, with a population of about 160,000, is positioned along Mexico’s central Pacific Coast. The Port of Manzanillo is one in every of the busiest container ports within the country, and is Mexico’s principal Pacific gateway for trade with China.
Guerrero is the second federal worker to be killed in Manzanillo over the past month.
An worker of the Mexican Attorney General’s Office was shot to death while driving her vehicle in Manzanillo on Oct. 21. Authorities haven’t released the lady’s name.
