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By KELIN DILLON

Two car bombs exploded in the Mexican state of Guanajuato on Thursday, Oct. 24, in what state officials have described as an act of “narcoterrorism.”

The explosives went off in the southern municipalities of Acámbaro and Jerécuaro, just miles outside of Guanajuato’s border with the State of Mexico (Edoméx).

The Acámbaro explosion, which occurred outside of the local police station, left three local police officers injured in its wake.

Numerous schools and businesses in the municipalities said they had suspended operations for the day after the car bombs went off. 

Following the incident, Guanajuato Governor Libia Dennise García Muñoz Ledo announced that land and air security elements from the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), the National Guard and the State Secretariat of Security and Peace would be deployed to the affected areas.

“Our municipalities are not alone; the entire force of the State is united in returning peace to Guanajuato,” García Muñoz wrote on social media.

According to the Guanajuato State Attorney General’s Office, security agents are currently conducting a criminal investigation into who is responsible for the narcoterrorism events.