MORELIA, Mexico — A gang of about 20 men armed with assault rifles robbed a train in the western state of Michoacan and carted off some of its freight, the state prosecutor’s office said Saturday.
The gang parked a pickup truck across the tracks on Friday, forcing the train to stop.
The assailants then threatened the train’s crew and opened some of the freight containers it was carrying.
A statement by the prosecutor’s office did not specify what the gang stole from the train operated by Kansas City Southern, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based railway company.
But the thieves may have been after drums of pseudoephedrine, a chemical used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamines, according to an official at the Michoacan state attorney general’s office who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to be quoted by name.
