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Oscar Lopez in Mexico City

Mexican authorities kill one of country’s top fentanyl traffickers

two men standing by a car at nighttime
Sinaloa state police agents stand guard during a security operation in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa state, Mexico, on 15 February 2019. Photograph: Rashide Frias/AFP/Getty Images

Mexican authorities have killed one of the country’s top fentanyl traffickers, accused of importing tens of thousands of kilos of the drug into the US and wanted by US authorities on narco-terrorism charges.

Pedro Inzunza Coronel, alias “El Pichón”, (The Pigeon) was killed on Sunday during an anti-drug operation by the Mexican navy in the north-western state of Sinaloa.

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