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MEXICO CITY (AP) – A forensic investigator and a detective were injured when an explosive device went off while investigating a crime scene in northern Mexico, authorities say.
The device appears to have been a booby trap, although police in the state of Guanajuato have not confirmed it.
The state prosecutor’s office said on Thursday that both injured officers are in stable condition. Police in the violence-ravaged Guanajuato town of Irapuato said plastic bags covered in blood had previously been found in a home.
Local media reported that a severed head was also found in the house.
A local website, TVConsequencias, filmed the crime scene when the explosion happened. The video shows officers walking in front of a house cordoned off with police tape when a powerful explosion breaks out in the building.
Guanajuato-based security analyst David Saucedo said the blast was caused by “a booby-trap grenade connected to a door. It went off when it opened.”
Guanajuato has been embroiled in a bloody battle between the local Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the Jalisco cartel for years.
While drug cartels in the neighboring state of Michoacan have begun using improvised explosive devices on roads to disable military vehicles, booby traps are relatively uncommon in Mexico.
In 2010, a car bomb targeting federal police officers exploded in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, killing three people and injuring nine. A drug cartel suspect used a cell phone to cordon off the explosives-laden car, killing a federal police officer and two civilians and injuring nine.