Gang leader with ties to El Chapo’s sons among 7 killed in Mexican border town – with bloodshed continuing across the country as five bloody bodies were found piled inside abandoned SUV in western Mexico [Video]

15:32 EDT 21 Mar 2024 , updated 15:39 EDT 21 Mar 2024

A high-ranking Sinaloa Cartel leader and six other men were killed and then dumped on a road near Mexico‘s border with Arizona, the government said Wednesday.

The killings were just part of the deaths along the border in recent days with another five people killed and left in an abandoned SUV in another part of Mexico. 

Sinaloa Cartel leader Samuel Ibarra, 48, and his henchmen, who are linked to the sons of Joaquin ‘El Chapo‘ Guzmán, were shot dead during a gun battle in San Luis Río Colorado, a municipality in the state of Sonora.

The shootout took place after Los Rusos, allied with the Sinaloa Cartel division led by co-founder Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada,’ led a convoy of armed fighters into the city Monday.

Surveillance video cameras captured the moment SUV and pick truck carrying Los Rusos gunmen arrived to hunt down Ibarra.