Dozens of Hummer military vehicles, some with heavy machine guns, roared through the hot, rundown city on their way to the nearby town of Navolato, passing a bullet-ridden police vehicle on a tow truck. As troops arrived in Culiacan, rival gunmen faced off in a battle near the city center, killing one man with an AK-47, a municipal police spokeswoman said.

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