5 police officers dead after being "attacked and ambushed" in Mexico; patrol vehicle set on fire

Five police officers died Monday after they were ambushed by an armed group in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala, local officials said.

The attack happened in the town of Frontera Comalapa, where the Chiapas state police officers were on patrol when they were ambushed.

"Members of the state police were attacked and ambushed," the governor of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramirez, said on social media.