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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Photos: 2 agents killed in Juarez
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
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.
Arturo
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.