FILE PHOTO: A soldier assigned to the National Guard is pictured at a checkpoint as part of an ongoing security operation by the federal government near the Mexican-American Mormon community of La Mora, Sonora state, Mexico November 6, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Ten suspected cartel gunmen and four police were killed during a shootout on Saturday in a Mexican town near the U.S. border, days after U.S. President Donald Trump raised bilateral tensions by saying he would designate the gangs as terrorists.
The government of the northern state of Coahuila said state police clashed at midday with a group of heavily armed gunmen riding in pickup trucks in the small town of Villa Union, about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the border city of Piedras Negras.
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