The agency also shared an image of the officers’ patrol vehicle completely engulfed in flames on a roadway.

In recent months, Chiapas has been shaken by a bloody turf war between the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels — the country’s two most powerful criminal organizations.

Criminal violence, most of it linked to drug trafficking, has claimed around 480,000 lives in Mexico since 2006 and left more than 120,000 people missing.

AFP