MORELIA, Mexico: Mexico has started registering vigilantes fighting a drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan to classify them as official rural defense groups, an official said on Thursday.

In the next few days some 400 to 600 people are expected to be registered, said Alfredo Castillo, a federal government commissioner for security in Michoacan.

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