<\/a>Ciudad Juarez<\/p><\/div>\n
Violence in Mexico continues. Gunmen ambushed two police vehicles at a busy intersection in this drug and violence-plagued city, killing seven officers and a 17-year-old boy who was passing by, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Six of the police officers killed in Friday’s attack were federal, and one was a local police woman, said Enrique Torres Valadez, a spokesman for the state of Chihuahua, where Ciudad Juarez is located. Two local police officers were in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the police officers had stopped to talk to a street vendor who flagged them down for help when gunmen opened fire from behind their pickup patrol trucks. The assailants fled in three vehicles.<\/p>\n
Investigators said they don’t know why the officers were shot, although they don’t believe they were targeted because of any recent arrests they had made.<\/p>\n
No one has been arrested but police said they have recovered two of the three cars used in the shooting.<\/p>\n
Hours after the attack, a painted message directed to top federal police commanders and claiming responsibility for the attack appeared on a wall in downtown Ciudad Juarez. It was apparently signed by La Linea gang, the enforcement arm of the Juarez drug cartel. The Juarez cartel has been locked in a bloody turf battle with the Sinaloa cartel, led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.<\/p>\n
via FOXNews.com – 7 Mexican police officers killed in Ciudad Juarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n