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    July 16, 2011

10 Mexican Police Killed in Ambush

   VOA News

   Mexican officials say gunmen have killed at least 10 police officers
   and a civilian in an ambush in the the western state of Sinaloa.

   Authorities say Friday's attack happened near the town of Guasave when
   the officers were returning from a political event in Los Mochis.

   The French news agency, AFP, says the officers belonged to a security
   detail of Sinaloa's public security secretary, Francisco Cordova, who
   was not traveling with the convoy at the time of the attack.

   Sinaloa has been the site of bloody confrontations among leading
   Mexican drug cartels feuding over lucrative narcotics supply routes
   leading to the united States.

   Drug-related violence has become commonplace in Mexico, with about
   37,000 people killed since the government launched an anti-drug
   crackdown in 2006.

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