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According to the local media, the Familia Michoacana drugs that arrived in the village require forced payments.
At least 11 people have been killed in a violent attack between suspected gang members and residents of a small farming town in central Mexico, authorities said.
Eight of those who died in the fighting in Texcaltitlan, a town about 65km from the state capital, were suspected of being involved in illegal activities and three of the villagers, said the Ministry of Defense in the State of Mexico in a statement on Friday. .
State police, who did not identify the gang suspected of being involved in the fight, said they are working with the National Guard and other authorities to provide detailed information about the incident. .
According to local media, the gunmen of the Familia Michoacana, a drug cartel blamed for the killing of 20 people in the neighboring state of Guerrero last year, arrived in the village and asked for help. local farmers to pay fees.
Mexican drug cartels are notorious for extorting money from businesses using the threat of violence and the Familia Michoacana operates in the region for many years.
Photos posted on social media showed violent clashes between several men, with villagers in cowboy hats armed with shotguns chasing suspected gang members amid the explosion of guns. Other pictures showed charred bodies and burning cars.
Al Jazeera could not independently verify the picture.