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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | January 2008 
Three Senior Policemen Killed in Mexico Border City
 Lizbeth Diaz - Reuters
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| | A federal police agent stands guard at a checkpoint in the border city of Tijuana April 17, 2007. (Reuters/Tomas Bravo) | | |
Suspected drug gunmen killed three senior policemen and some of their relatives in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, a week after the government beefed up security against drug gangs, police said on Tuesday.
Two of the officers were gunned down while driving near a mall in the city's southern La Mesa district. Another policeman was shot dead at home along with his wife and 9-year-old daughter. Police believe the same gunmen were responsible for the killings.
Mexico last week sent hundreds of police reinforcements to Tijuana following a recent rash of drug killings. It is the biggest city in Baja California Norte, which is Mexico's most violent state with more than 400 gangland-style murders in 2007.
President Felipe Calderon has been battling organized crime since he took office a year ago and has sent some 25,000 troops and federal police to the country's worst trouble spots.
On Monday alone, 17 people were found dead across the country in drug-related crimes, Mexican media reported.
(Writing by Cyntia Barrera Diaz, editing by Jackie Frank) |
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