Makes you want to pack your bags for a trip to Mexico, huh?

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2 Tijuana cops, federal agent killed in attacks


by Anna Cearley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
May 5, 2006

TIJUANA – The bodies of two city police officers were found Tuesday morning, and later that day a federal agent was gunned down and another seriously wounded in their office.

The motive for the killings and whether they are related is unclear, but police in Baja California have come under heavy fire in recent days.

A top state public security official, Manuel Díaz Lerma, escaped injury after gunmen fired hundreds of shots at his convoy and lobbed a grenade at his bodyguards' car during an April 25 ambush in Mexicali. Two bodyguards were injured.
In the most recent rash of violence, the bodies of Tijuana city police agents Alonso Eduardo Mercado Carranza, 32, and Gustavo Reynold Aguirre Alvarez, 32, were found before dawn Tuesday on a road in the San Antonio de los Buenos district, according to a city police report.

The bodies showed evidence of having been beaten, and police found 11 spent cartridges, according to the report. The report did not list a cause of death.

About 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, three assailants brazenly entered the Tijuana offices of a federal task force that combats small-scale drug crimes and shot to death investigator Eduardo Reyes Hernández, 25, according to a city report. Another agent, Humberto Alvarez, 27, was wounded in the attack.