agents shot in Juarez
Investigators check the scene where two agents with the Mexican Attorney General's Office were slain Tuesday in Juarez. (Special to the Times)
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JUAREZ -- Two agents with the Mexican Attorney General's Office, or PGR, were fatally shot Tuesday while traveling in an unmarked agency truck in the south-central part of Juárez.
Another man who was traveling with them was wounded and taken to a local hospital in critical condition, according to officials.
The shooting occurred before noon at Tecnológico Avenue and Pedro Meneses Hoyos Street, near Central Park, one of the main family attractions in the city, officials said.
Preliminary reports
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said that a group of heavily armed men shot at the agents from a moving vehicle. The agents were in a blue truck.
One of agents apparently got out of the truck in an attempt to escape. He fell facedown on the Tecnológico Avenue a few yards from the truck and died at the scene.
Officers with the Attorney General's Office confirmed that the two men killed were agents from the agency's Ministerial Federal Police.
The PGR did not disclose the names of the agents killed or of the man who was wounded.
Federal and Chihuahua state investigators and agents arrived at the scene and blocked off the northbound lanes of the Tecnológico Avenue for most of the afternoon. The PGR also launched an investigation.
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Sandoval, spokesman for the Chihuahua Attorney General's Office, said the evidence state investigators and experts collected will be given to the PGR.
The state Attorney General's Office also will make its forensic lab available to support federal agents in the investigation, Sandoval said.
Lorena Figueroa may be reached at lfigueroa@elpasotimes.com; 546-6129.