Around the World: Mexico

Drug gangs kill police chief

Suspected drug gunmen ambushed and killed a Mexican police chief on Saturday in a murder campaign against senior policemen that has escalated in the past week.

Juan Antonio Roman, the No 2 policeman in the gritty border city of Ciudad Juarez, was riddled with bullets outside his home as he stepped from his pickup truck in the early hours of the morning, a police spokesman said.

He was the sixth senior policeman killed throughout the country this week.

(China Daily 05/12/2008 page6)