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Fed Agents Gunned Down at Mexico City Restaurant

Officials were involved in drug fight

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(Newser) – In a brazen display of Mexican drug cartel violence, two federal agents were shot dead in broad daylight as they dined in a Mexico City restaurant yesterday, CNN reports. The shooter then sped off in a black car. One victim was the nation's second-highest-ranking federal police officer and was in charge of programs to combat drug trafficking and smuggling.

Police officers guards an ambulance carrying the bodies of federal police officers killed in a restaurant in Mexico City Thursday..
Police officers guards an ambulance carrying the bodies of federal police officers killed in a restaurant in Mexico City Thursday..   (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Police officers guard the car of federal police officers killed in a restaurant in Mexico City yesterday.
Police officers guard the car of federal police officers killed in a restaurant in Mexico City yesterday.   (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
A police officer guards the scene of the crime where federal police officers were killed as residents watch in Mexico City on Thursday.
A police officer guards the scene of the crime where federal police officers were killed as residents watch in Mexico City on Thursday.   (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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