(O.K. folks, let's show that we are NOT hypocrites, I remember we showed a lot of compassion for the Canadian Mounties when they had a shooting, don't these Mexican Police deserve a little too?)
Thu Jun 9, 2005 12:49 AM ET
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (Reuters) - Gunmen shot and killed a Mexican police chief in this northern border city on Wednesday, judicial sources said,
the third police commander attacked in a week and the seventh killed this year in a brutal war with drug cartels. Alejandro Dominguez was sprayed with about 30 bullets while he was driving on Wednesday evening, sources at federal and local prosecution offices said.
The attack came hours after Dominguez was appointed a local public security chief. Dominguez's cousin was former Deputy Attorney General Javier Coello, sources said.
A witness to the attack said gunfire came from more than one vehicle following Dominguez's car. "They were in convoy with their lights switched off. After the first burst of shooting I threw myself on the ground behind a car," said a car washer at the scene who declined to give his name.
On Thursday, gunmen in Nuevo Laredo killed a municipal police commander in front of his young daughter. A day earlier another local police chief was ambushed and wounded driving through the city center. Nuevo Laredo is a major transit point for both legitimate trade and illegal narcotics entering the United States. It is in the grip of an all-out war between rival drug gangs.
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