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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/mexican-police-hunt-cartel-leaders.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A bullet riddled truck window on a road leading to the city of Morelia, Mexico (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-mexican-police-hunt-cartel-leaders.jpg" alt="A bullet riddled truck window on a road leading to the city of Morelia, Mexico (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Federal police have set up a series of blockades in the hunt for top leaders of the La Familia drug cartel in a western Mexican state.</p>
<p>The resulting shootouts during the operation left at least five people dead, including a baby.</p>
<p>Federal police believe that several La Familia members may have been killed, including one of its top leaders, said Alejandro Poire, government spokesman for security issues.</p>
<p>&#8220;The way the criminals have tried to protect themselves as they fled from our operations and information suggests that we have located and are closely pursuing high-level leaders of La Familia Michoacana,&#8221; Mr Poire said.</p>
<p>The shootout began on Wednesday night when federal police investigating a tip-off about the presence of armed men in Apatzingan in Michoacan state came under fire from La Familia gunmen. The gunmen fired on civilian cars and used the sometimes-burning vehicles as barricades.</p>
<p>One of those killed was an eight-month-old baby who was riding in a taxi with his mother, the state attorney general&#8217;s office confirmed.</p>
<p>The Michoacan Attorney General&#8217;s Office said the total number of people killed was five, including two federal police officers. Three other officers were injured.</p>
<p>The Public Safety Department statement said a third group of gunmen ambushed another federal police unit trying to come to the aid of their colleagues. The gunmen blocked a highway leading into Apatzingan to prevent the police from advancing.</p>
<p>The blockades continued on Thursday in Morelia, the picturesque colonial capital of Michoacan state.</p>
<p>The gunmen arrived at all five roads leading into Morelia and fired into the air to force drivers and passengers from their vehicles, said Jonathan Arrendondo, a spokesman for the attorney general&#8217;s office of Michoacan state, where the city is located.</p>
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