International Desk: At least 29 people, including 10 soldiers, have been killed during the bloody operation to arrest of the son of Mexican drugs kingpin "El Chapo", the Mexican authorities say.

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Ovidio Guzmán-López, 32, alleged to be a leader of his father's former cartel, was captured in Culiacán and flown to Mexico City on Thursday.

Furious gang members set up road blocks, set fire to dozens of vehicles and attacked planes at a local airport.

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Defence Minister said A further 35 military personnel were injured and 21 gunmen were arrested.

Ovidio Guzman, nicknamed “El Raton”, or “The Mouse”, was rounded up early on Thursday in the northern state of Sinaloa and flown to Mexico City on a military plane.

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He is accused of leading a faction of his father's notorious Sinaloa cartel - one of the largest drug-trafficking organisations in the world.

His father, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is serving a life sentence in the US after being found guilty in 2019 of drug trafficking and money laundering. His trial revealed some of the brutal details of how Mexico's drug cartels operate.

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The six-month surveillance operation to capture Mr Guzmán-López had the support of United States officials, Mr Sandoval said.

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