Police chief assassinated in Mexico
A high-ranking police officer in the northern Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo was shot dead Thursday after another one was wounded in that city on the US border.

The victim, identified as Enrique Cardenas Saldala, who took office as the supervisor of No. 4 police base a year ago, received eight shots when leaving his residence on Fidel Velazquez Street to drive his daughter to school. The girl was inside his car and unhurt.

Cardenas Saldala is the seventh police officer killed this year in Nuevo Laredo.

The killing occurred just one day after an earlier murder attempt targeting policemen. On early Wednesday, municipal preventive police commander Samuel Alvarado Torres, 43, was injured in an attack. The perpetrators have not yet been identified.