Attackers with assault rifles today opened fire on a police convoy transporting two suspects -- including an American -- in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The attack left two policeman and a suspect wounded. The shootings happened in broad daylight outside the Nuevo Laredo police department. The suspects are accused of participating in a Monday shooting that killed one man and wound another. Suspect 19-year-old Rebeca Garcia was wounded. Suspect Javier Escalera, of the United States, was unharmed. No information on his hometown was immediately available. Both Garcia and the police officers were taken to a hospital for treatment.
The city across the border from Laredo, Texas, has been the scene of a bloody turf war between rival drug gangs fighting over trafficking routes.