Thousands of displaced residents in southern Mexico fear returning to their homes after violence
BY RAÚL VERA
Updated 9:59 PM CDT, June 11, 2024
YAJALON, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of residents displaced by violence that intensified this week in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas remained fearful Tuesday of returning to their homes.
Authorities have had to set up camps for more than 4,000 displaced people who fled the town of Tila over the weekend and are working to bring them home, but the displaced are wary.
One of them, Julio César Gómez, fled after armed gangs shot up the town and burned several of his relatives’ homes.
“They tell us to return but who can guarantee that we will be safe, that there won’t be problems?” said Gómez, speaking from a sports court turned camp for the displaced in Yajalon Tuesday. “No one guarantees anything. There is no solution in sight.”
Some residents recounted spending days trapped in their homes before army troops and state police showed up to allow them to leave
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