Mexican soldiers killed 12 gunmen in a shootout near the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said Monday.

A security spokesperson for the Mexican state of Tamaulipas explained that members of the Secretariat of National Defense were attacked by armed civilians in Miguel Aleman, a township across the border from Roma, Texas.

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