Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Mexico on Sunday said it killed "El Mencho," the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, in an operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, a Mexican state known for trafficking fentanyl and other drugs to the United States.
JNGC leader Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, who is also known as "El Mencho," died while being transported to a hospital in Mexico City after the operation, Mexico's Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
The military killed four alleged cartel members at the scene. Three others who were seriously wounded, including Cervantes, died during their air transfer, military officials said.
The news came after roadblocks, explosions and violence were reported in Tapalpa and Guadalajara, among other locations in the western coastal Mexican state of Jalisco, Fox News and El Financiero reported.
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