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Schools shelter students amid Matamoros roadblocks and gunfire

A Mexican television report describes burning vehicles, preventive border-crossing closures and a child's death following a federal operation.

Channel: MILENIO ·

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Detención de objetivo prioritario desata caos vial en Tamaulipas

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0:18Domínguez says roadblock reports began late in the morning on major streets and highways.
1:16The detainee was transferred to Mexico City, but authorities had not officially confirmed the person's identity.
1:58The reporter says U.S. authorities closed border crossings as a precaution.
2:09Domínguez reports that a child died and her mother was seriously injured in crossfire during the operation.
4:51Schools kept students inside after dismissal to protect them from nearby gunfire, according to the reporter.

Schools in Matamoros kept students inside after dismissal as gunfire and roadblocks disrupted the Mexican border city, reporter Ángel Domínguez tells Mexico's MILENIO news channel. Some waited roughly an hour and a half before letting pupils leave, he says.

The report links the disruption to a federal operation that detained a suspected organized-crime leader described as a high-priority target. Footage shows trucks positioned across roads, long lines of cars and burning vehicles obstructing traffic.

Domínguez says reports of blockades began late in the morning on major avenues in Matamoros and along the Matamoros-Reynosa highway, including around Nuevo Progreso and the Río Bravo exit. Vehicle fires followed in the early afternoon.

Matamoros sits across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, making the disruption a cross-border concern. According to Domínguez, U.S. authorities closed international crossings as a precaution. The report does not establish when they would reopen.

Domínguez also reports that a child died and her mother was seriously injured during the operation. He attributes their injuries to gunfire from a navy helicopter during an exchange of fire. Both were taken to a hospital, where the child died, according to his account.

The person detained had been transferred to Mexico City for further proceedings, Domínguez says, but authorities had not officially confirmed the person's identity at the time of the broadcast.

The video, titled "Detención de objetivo prioritario desata caos vial en Tamaulipas" ("Arrest of high-priority target triggers traffic chaos in Tamaulipas"), ends with the reporter describing schools' efforts to protect students and the studio anchor urging residents to follow official safety instructions and avoid exposing themselves to danger.