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Mexico: Resort City Puerto Vallarta Rocked by Violence After Cartel Leader Death 5

Puerto Vallarta woke Sunday, February 22 to scenes of smoke, fires and road blockades after armed groups burned at least eight vehicles and scattered tire spikes across the city and nearby municipalities in Jalisco state. The violence, which prompted a “Code Red” alert and shelter-in-place calls from authorities, was reportedly triggered by a federal operation in Tapalpa and unconfirmed reports of the killing of alleged CJNG leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes.

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Mexico: Resort City Puerto Vallarta Rocked by Violence After Cartel Leader Death 4

Puerto Vallarta woke Sunday, February 22 to scenes of smoke, fires and road blockades after armed groups burned at least eight vehicles and scattered tire spikes across the city and nearby municipalities in Jalisco state. The violence, which prompted a “Code Red” alert and shelter-in-place calls from authorities, was reportedly triggered by a federal operation in Tapalpa and unconfirmed reports of the killing of alleged CJNG leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes. This video shows the Mexican Navy ship coming into Puerto Vallarta on Monday afternoon.

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Mexico: Panic at Guadalajara International Airport After Death of Cartel Leader “El Mencho”

Panic broke out at Guadalajara International Airport after the reported death of cartel leader Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes triggered violence across parts of western Mexico. The unrest followed the killing of Oseguera Cervantes — known as “El Mencho,” founder of the Jalisco New Generation Cartels — during a military operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco. Authorities said troops came under fire and returned fire, killing four cartel operatives. As tensions spread, flights were disrupted across the region. Nearly half of departures and arrivals at Guadalajara were delayed or canceled, leaving hundreds stranded.

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Mexico: Resort City Puerto Vallarta Rocked by Violence After Alleged Cartel Leader Death 2

Puerto Vallarta woke Sunday, February 22 to scenes of smoke, fires and road blockades after armed groups burned at least eight vehicles and scattered tire spikes across the city and nearby municipalities in Jalisco state. The violence, which prompted a “Code Red” alert and shelter-in-place calls from authorities, was reportedly triggered by a federal operation in Tapalpa and unconfirmed reports of the killing of alleged CJNG leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes.

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Mexico: Resort City Puerto Vallarta Rocked by Violence After Alleged Cartel Leader Death

Puerto Vallarta woke Sunday, February 22 to scenes of smoke, fires and road blockades after armed groups burned at least eight vehicles and scattered tire spikes across the city and nearby municipalities in Jalisco state. The violence, which prompted a “Code Red” alert and shelter-in-place calls from authorities, was reportedly triggered by a federal operation in Tapalpa and unconfirmed reports of the killing of alleged CJNG leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes.

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Settlers Attack Tulkarm Village - Palestine

( A Palestinian walks past a vehicle burnt in the fire set by Israeli settlers near Beit Lid town, east of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank on November 11, 2025. Israeli settlers on Tuesday attacked industrial and agricultural facilities near Beit Lid town, east of Tulkarm, causing large fires and injuring several Palestinians, according to the Palestinian official news agency WAFA. (Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.CO

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Settlers Attack Tulkarm Village - Palestine

( A Palestinian checks a vehicle burnt in the fire set by Israeli settlers near Beit Lid town, east of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank on November 11, 2025. Israeli settlers on Tuesday attacked industrial and agricultural facilities near Beit Lid town, east of Tulkarm, causing large fires and injuring several Palestinians, according to the Palestinian official news agency WAFA. (Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.CO

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Settlers Attack Tulkarm Village - Palestine

( A Palestinian checks a vehicle burnt in the fire set by Israeli settlers near Beit Lid town, east of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank on November 11, 2025. Israeli settlers on Tuesday attacked industrial and agricultural facilities near Beit Lid town, east of Tulkarm, causing large fires and injuring several Palestinians, according to the Palestinian official news agency WAFA. (Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.CO

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Illustration - Firefighters Response to Fires in Var - France

A DFCI (forest fire protection) vehicle in Signes in south-east France on 01 July 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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an Actual Combat Training in Ningbo

NINGBO, CHINA - JANUARY 10, 2025 - A Chinese infantry combat vehicle unit fires live ammunition with vehicle-mounted weapons during an actual combat training in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China, Jan. 10, 2025.

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an Actual Combat Training in Ningbo

NINGBO, CHINA - JANUARY 10, 2025 - A Chinese infantry combat vehicle unit fires live ammunition with vehicle-mounted weapons during an actual combat training in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China, Jan. 10, 2025.

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an Actual Combat Training in Ningbo

NINGBO, CHINA - JANUARY 10, 2025 - A Chinese infantry combat vehicle unit fires live ammunition with vehicle-mounted weapons during an actual combat training in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China, Jan. 10, 2025.

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Israel Faces Wave Of Condemnation Over Strike On Rafah

A man looks at a vehicle destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on tents for displaced people near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on May 27, 2024. Israel faced widespread international condemnation on Monday after an Israeli air strike killed dozens of Palestinians in a camp for displaced civilians in Rafah. Palestinian officials said at least 45 people had been killed and more than 200 injured after fires and explosions triggered by the strike ripped through the crowded tent city in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, which housed people who had fled fighting elsewhere in Gaza. Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israel Faces Wave Of Condemnation Over Strike On Rafah

A boy looks at a vehicle destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on tents for displaced people near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on May 27, 2024. Israel faced widespread international condemnation on Monday after an Israeli air strike killed dozens of Palestinians in a camp for displaced civilians in Rafah. Palestinian officials said at least 45 people had been killed and more than 200 injured after fires and explosions triggered by the strike ripped through the crowded tent city in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, which housed people who had fled fighting elsewhere in Gaza. Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israeli Raid Nablus - West Bank

An Israeli armoured vehicle fires teargas during an intervention in the clashes between Palestinians and Israeli settlers who stormed the top of Mount Al-Arma in Beita town, south of Nablus on Friday, May 03, 2024. The tensions have been rising in the areas of West Bank between the Palestinians and Israelis since October 07, and often the Israeli police intervene by firing teargas, and sending armed forces to disperse the Palestinians gathered to confront the Israeli settlers. Photo by Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHILE-VINA DEL MAR-FOREST FIRES-DEATH TOLL

(240206) -- VINA DEL MAR, Feb. 6, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 3, 2024 shows a vehicle damaged by fires in Vina Del Mar, Chile. Raging forest fires in central Chile's Valparaiso region have claimed at least 122 lives, the Chilean government said Monday. Fires sparked Friday in different locations have burned more than 11,000 hectares in Valparaiso, and between 3,000 and 6,000 homes have suffered some degree of damage. (Xinhua)

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Gaza Officials Say More Than 5,000 People Killed

People walk through the ruins of buildings in Gaza, with a firefighting vehicle in the backdrop, working to extinguish fires in the demolished buildings caused by Israeli airstrikes on the 17th day of the war between Israel and Palestine. Gaza Strip, October 23, 2023. Hamas militants stormed into Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, and killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians who were shot or burnt to death on the first day of the raid, according to Israeli officials. More than 5,000 Palestinians, mainly civilians, have been killed across the Gaza Strip in retaliatory Israeli bombardments, according to the latest toll from the Hamas health ministry in Gaza. Photo by Mohammed Zaanoun/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Several Fires Out Of Control In Galicia

A vehicle passes by one of the fire outbreaks on October 12, 2023, in Vidal, Trabada, Lugo, Galicia (Spain). The proximity of the fire to population centers has forced to declare the so-called 'situation 2' in the municipality of Trabada, Lugo. Specifically, the flames are approaching the villages of Barreiros, Vidal and Penacova, after starting in the parish of Trabada, in the municipality of the same name. To try to stabilize the fire have been mobilized five technicians, six agents, 13 brigades, 10 motor pumps, three shovels, a tractor, five technical support units, six aircraft and three helicopters. The other fire in Galicia, in the parish of Nieva, Avión (Ourense) remains stabilized after burning 70 hectares. Photo by Carlos Castro/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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ALGERIA-BEJAIA-WILDFIRES-AFTERMATH

(230725) -- BEJAIA (ALGERIA), July 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A man inspects a vehicle burned in a wildfire in Bejaia Province, Algeria, on July 25, 2023. The death toll from wildfires in northern Algeria has risen to 34, including 10 soldiers, the Interior Ministry said in an update on Monday. The fires started overnight on Sunday mainly in the provinces of Bejaia, Jijel, and Bouira, but quickly spread due to strong winds, causing significant damage. (Xinhua)

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Forest Fire In Canary Islands

A vehicle of the Brigadas de Refuerzo en Incendios Forestales (BRIF) that collaborates in the extinguishing of the La Palma fire, on July 16, 2023, in Puntagorda, La Palma, Canary Islands (Spain). This fire declared in the early hours of yesterday morning in an urban forest area in the municipality of Puntagorda already affects about 4,600 hectares and has burned 11 houses. In addition, the Emergency Coordination Center has announced the evacuation of more than 4,000 people from the municipalities of Tijarafe and Puntagorda, due to the advance of the fire. The Canary Islands Government has assumed the management of the emergency in application of the Special Plan for Civil Protection and Emergency Attention due to Forest Fires in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands (INFOCA). Besides, the fire has reached the National Park of La Caldera de Taburiente, where it has burned about 60 hectares so far. Photo by Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sasago tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - The site of the fatal collapse of an interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012, in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, is shown to reporters on Feb. 3, 2013, for the first time since the accident. Flowers are laid where vehicle fires happened.

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Sasago tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - The site of the fatal collapse of an interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012, in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, is shown to reporters on Feb. 3, 2013, for the first time since the accident. Flowers are laid where vehicle fires happened.

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Live-fire ground force drill near Mt. Fuji

GOTEMBA, Japan - A Ground Self-Defense Force member fires an antitank shell from an armored vehicle during an annual live-fire demonstration at Higashi Fuji Maneuver Area near Mt. Fuji, southwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 29, 2010. About 2,400 GSFD members took part in the drill using around 44 tons of live ammunition as some 28,000 spectators looked on.

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(9)Photos from Iraq war

KARBALA, Iraq - A U.S. 3rd Infantry Division armored vehicle fires shells on the outskirts of the central Iraqi city of Karbala on April 2.

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(4)Scenes from Iraq war

SOUTHERN Iraq - An armored vehicle from the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division fires shells at the buildings of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's Baath party near Samawah, southern Iraq, on March 24.

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ALGERIA-EL TARF-FOREST FIRES-DEATH TOLL

(220818) -- EL TARF (ALGERIA), Aug. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A man checks a vehicle damaged in a forest fire in El Tarf province, Algeria, on Aug. 18, 2022. At least 37 people were killed and 235 others injured in forest fires that have ravaged large parts of the country, said a statement of the Algerian civil protection authority on Thursday. (Xinhua)

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ALGERIA-EL TARF-FOREST FIRES-DEATH TOLL

(220818) -- EL TARF (ALGERIA), Aug. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People check a vehicle damaged in a forest fire in El Tarf province, Algeria, on Aug. 18, 2022. At least 37 people were killed and 235 others injured in forest fires that have ravaged large parts of the country, said a statement of the Algerian civil protection authority on Thursday. (Xinhua)

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ALGERIA-EL TARF-FOREST FIRES-DEATH TOLL

(220818) -- EL TARF (ALGERIA), Aug. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A man walks past a vehicle damaged in a forest fire in El Tarf province, Algeria, on Aug. 18, 2022. At least 37 people were killed and 235 others injured in forest fires that have ravaged large parts of the country, said a statement of the Algerian civil protection authority on Thursday. (Xinhua)

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SPAIN-HEATWAVE-WILDFIRES

(220721) -- LOSACIO (SPAIN), July 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on July 21, 2022 shows a vehicle burned in a wildfire in Losacio, Castilla y Leon, Spain. In Spain, the heatwave has raised the risk of forest fires to "extreme" and "very high" levels in nearly all parts of the country. Spain has suffered over 250 wildfires so far in 2022, which have burned off over 90,000 hectares of land, surpassing the losses reported in 2021. (Junta de Castilla y Leon/Handout via Xinhua)

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ITALY-TOURISM-SARDINIA

Two Canadair airplanes used to extinguish fires are pictured at the airport of Olbia Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy on September 1, 2021. (Photo by Emmanuele Contini/NurPhoto) (Credit:Emmanuele Contini/NurPhoto/Kyodo News Images)

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Live-fire ground force drill near Mt. Fuji

GOTEMBA, Japan - A Ground Self-Defense Force member fires an antitank shell from an armored vehicle during an annual live-fire demonstration at Higashi Fuji Maneuver Area near Mt. Fuji, southwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 29, 2010. About 2,400 GSFD members took part in the drill using around 44 tons of live ammunition as some 28,000 spectators looked on. (Kyodo)

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(4)Scenes from Iraq war

SOUTHERN Iraq - An armored vehicle from the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division fires shells at the buildings of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's Baath party near Samawah, southern Iraq, on March 24. (Kyodo)