CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico’s decades-long fight against traffickers, setting a deadly trap against federal police in a city across the border from Texas, the mayor of Ciudad Juárez said Friday.
Mayor Jose Reyes said federal police have confirmed to him that a car bomb was used in the attack that killed three people Thursday.
Federal police and paramedics were lured to the scene by a call reporting that shots were fired at a major intersection and a municipal police officer lay wounded, Reyes said. As the paramedics were working on the wounded man, a parked car exploded, he said.
Reyes said authorities later determined that the wounded man was not a police officer, although he was wearing a fake uniform. The man was among the three people who died in the attack. The others were a federal police officer and a medical technician.
The Associated Press
