Texas DPS surveillance plane captures Mexican cartel factions during gun battle near border

An aggravated weapon conflict involving factions of a Mexican supplier cartel raged crossed nan confederate separator this week arsenic some groups exchanged gunfire successful an area utilized to smuggle narcotics and migrants. 

The gunfight occurred Wednesday successful Rio Bravo successful nan Mexican authorities of Tamaulipas, little than a mile distant from nan Rio Grande, crossed from Donna, Texas, Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Christopher Olivarez told Fox News Digital. 

The factions fighting were identified arsenic nan "scorpions" and nan "metros," he said.  

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Video footage captured by a Texas Department of Public Safety surveillance craft showed a weapon conflict betwixt Gulf Cartel factions Wednesday.  (Texas Department of Public Safety)

"They don't usage emblematic firearms aliases rifles. They're utilizing military-type weapons," he said. "If personification is adjacent by that (Rio Grande) river, there's a precocious probability they could get hit.

"It's astir apt 1 of nan astir dangerous areas on nan border." 

One video shows what appeared to beryllium an explosive instrumentality being thrown from a vehicle. 

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Inmates successful a situation successful Reynosa, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, during a sojourn by journalists May 24, 2017.  (Julio Cesar Aguilar /AFP via Getty Images)

Another shows personification opening occurrence pinch a weapon adjacent a truck. 

The footage was captured by thermal video from a DPS surveillance aircraft. Gun battles person occurred successful nan area, Olivarez said, but authorities were ne'er capable to seizure them connected video. 

The Gulf Cartel controls overmuch of nan area adjacent wherever nan fighting took spot Wednesday, but location person been ongoing battles betwixt Gulf Cartel factions for power of smuggling routes on the border.

Surveillance footage of Gulf Cartel members successful Mexico during a weapon battle.  (Texas Department of Public Safety)

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"There's ever been cartels. There's ever been weapon battles," Olivarez said. "It's progressively much aggravated now because you person cartels that are fighting each different because they want control."