After Tijuana violence, Mexicans call for enforcement





By Mark Stevenson
ASSOCIATED PRESS

12:07 p.m. January 18, 2008





Update

11:41 p.m. Jan. 18, 2008

One of three Mexican federal police officers wounded in the shootout later died, bringing to four the number of law enforcement officers killed in the Tijuana area this week.






Authorities say they've found six executed kidnapping victims inside a Tijuana house where gunmen took refuge during a shootout with police. Mexico has recently seen a spike in gang-related killings.
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PEGGY PEATTIE / Union-Tribune
Heavily armed Baja California police left the scene of yesterday's battle with gunmen in a middle-class neighborhood of Tijuana.

TIJUANA, Mexico – Rosalba Padilla thought the first shots were nothing but construction in her quiet, upper-class Tijuana neighborhood. It wasn't until she looked out her window and saw a sea of police that she realized the noise was gunfire.
Down the street, at the Preschool of Happiness, director Gloria Rico activated the school's alarm, prompting police to rush into the building, their guns drawn. Rico said the children were terrified by the chaos.

“Some were crying, one vomited and another wet his pants,â€