After smashing the gates at Guanajuato airport, the suspects took the bags that the employees were preparing to load into a plane.
Armed bandits attacked an armored van on a runway at an international airport in central Mexico in three minutes, while the funds were about to be loaded onto a plane. They would have taken away a million dollars of loot.
The facts occurred Wednesday evening around 21 hours (5 pm Thursday in Paris). The thieves arrived in a van and smashed the security gates on the Guanajuato airport runway, said the airport operator, the Pacific Airport Group (GAP).
An armed robbery
Under threat of gunfire, they took the bags that the airport employees were preparing to load, and then fled by breaking through the gates at another location, all in less than three minutes, GAP said. local authorities. No amount has been given from an official source, but according to local media the loot would amount to about 20 million pesos, or a million dollars.
On December 14, a van carrying 118 million pesos ($ 6.2 million) was intercepted by bandits in the same state of Guanajuato. The truck was later found buried in a nearby town.
Guanajuato is one of Mexico's most important industrial centers, with many automotive, aeronautical and heavy industry factories. These activities, as well as the presence of important energy infrastructures, have attracted criminal organizations with their procession of extortions, kidnappings and fuel theft, according to the authorities.