Baja official dies after attack

By Sandra Dibble, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 8:53 a.m.

TIJUANA — A 30-year-old attorney assigned to the Baja California anti-kidnapping squad in Tijuana died late Tuesday following an ambush by armed gunmen, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office reported Wednesday.

Jose Luis Vasquez Cervantes was driving in an official vehicle on a major thoroughfare near Playas de Tijuana shortly after 9 p.m. when gunmen in a nearby vehicle opened fire.

Vasquez lost control of his vehicle and plunged down an embankment.

The exact cause of death has not yet been determined.

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