At least 19 dead in Mexico after police shootout with suspected cartel members

Details: Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme said four police officers were killed after an armed group stormed the town in a convoy of trucks and attacked local government offices. Security forces killed 13 suspected cartel members, according to WashPost, which reports two kidnapped civilians also died in the incident.

The big picture: Mexico’s murder rate has increased by 2% in the first 10 months of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's presidency. There have been 29,414 homicides in 2019 so far, compared to 28,869 in the same period of 2018, per figures released by the Mexican government and reviewed by the Associated Press.

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Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect the fact that authorities revised the death toll down from 21. They also clarified that two kidnapped civilians had died in the incident.