Mexico state jail head gunned down
Unknown perpetrators Tuesday shot dead the director of a state jail in Mexico, prosecutors said.

Eduardo Villalobos, head of the jail of the northwestern Baja California state, was shot when heading for his office in an official vehicle, prosecutors said.

Villalobos was also Baja California's attorney general and director of the Special Anti-Organized Crime Unit of the state.

Nine-millimeter bullet shells which could have been used by a Uzi sub-machine gun were found at the spot of the murder, prosecutors said.

Some versions said four gunmen conducted the assassination.

The official was taken to the Mexicali Red Cross Hospital aliveand died there later.

Villalobos was killed two days after the police chief of Rosarito, also in Baja California, was assassinated.

A wave of organized crimes throughout the country has led to the deaths of 40 people.