| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2008 
Prosecutor Slain in Violent Mexico Border City
 Associated Press
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| | State police officers stand next to the bullet-riddled vehicle where an assistant federal prosecutor was killed along with his secretary in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday Dec. 3, 2008. Jesus Martin Huerta, who worked for Mexico's Attorney Generals Office as an assistant federal prosecutor and his secretary were ambushed and killed while driving in this violence plagued border city by unknown gunmen. (AP) | |
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico — The No. 2 federal prosecutor in a violent Mexican border city near Texas has been shot dead.
Jesus Martin Huerta is one of the highest ranking government officials killed in drug-fueled violence sweeping Ciudad Juarez.
The attorney general's office says two gunmen opened fire on Huerta's car while it was stopped at an intersection. A woman behind the wheel who also worked for the attorney general's office was also killed.
Police named no suspects in Wednesday's attack.
But drug gangs have increasingly targeted police and federal officials as they resist a national crackdown.
More than a dozen police officers have been shot dead this year in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. |
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