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3 Killed in Mexico Drug Gang Attack on Police

   VOA News 16 July 2010
   Federal  police  agents  secure  the area after members of a drug gang
   rammed  a  car  into two police patrol vehicles in retaliation for the
   arrest  of  a  top  gang  leader in the northern border city of Ciudad
   Juarez, Mexico, 15 July 2010

Photo: AP

   Federal  police  agents  secure  the area after members of a drug gang
   rammed  a  car  into two police patrol vehicles in retaliation for the
   arrest  of  a  top  gang  leader in the northern border city of Ciudad
   Juarez, Mexico, 15 July 2010

   Mexican  authorities  say two police officers and a medical technician
   are  dead  after  a car rammed two police vehicles in what authorities
   say was retaliation for the arrest of a drug cartel leader.
   Police  said  the attack Thursday in the violent border town of Ciudad
   Juarez was a direct response to the arrest earlier in the day of Jesus
   Acosta Guerrero, a senior gang member linked to the Juarez cartel.
   Authorities  say  the attack caused an explosion, leaving the vehicles
   badly  damaged.  The  Associated Press news agency reports the car may
   have been packed with explosives or inflammable material.
   Mexican  President  Felipe Calderon has deployed thousands of soldiers
   nationwide  to  fight drug gangs since taking office in 2006. At least
   23,000  people  have  been  killed  in drug-related violence since the
   president began cracking down on the cartels.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.

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