Two Americans And U.S. Consulate Spouse Killed In Drive-By Shootings
By: RNS
Updated: March 16, 2010
(Washington, DC) -- The State Department is warning Americans headed to
border towns in Mexico to use extreme caution following drive-by shootings
that killed three people over the weekend, including two Americans.
The "Los Angeles Times" reports two separate shootings took place in broad
daylight near the U.S. Consulate in the Mexican border city of Juarez.
The State Department is allowing Americans staffing consulates in five
border towns to evacuate their families.
In Saturdays attacks, an American employee working at the Juarez consulate
was killed along with his American wife, but their infant child survived the
shooting.
The third victim in a separate shooting was the Mexican husband of a
Mexican national who is employed by the consulate.
Two of their children were wounded in the gunfire, which is being blamed on
drug cartels.
