3 killed in Mexico shootout

MEXICO CITY - A gun battle between police and an armed man in Mexico's eastern state of Veracruz has left two policemen killed and six other officers injured, local authorities said Saturday.

Police responded to a report of gunfire at a bar in the city of Minatitlan midnight Friday and the officers shot back after the armed men fired at them from a nearby house, the Veracruz Secretary of Public Safety said in a statement.

The armed man died in the gun battle, the statement said, adding that police arrested another suspect and seized four firearms.

The injured officers have been sent to local hospitals.