Fourth senior Mexican police officer shot dead

A group of men shot dead a high-ranking Mexican federal police officer involved in the government’s war on drugs on Thursday, the fourth senior policemen killed in recent days.

Regional commissioner Edgar Millan was gunned down in the capital in the early hours of the morning, a spokesman for the Security Ministry told Reuters. He was shot nine times, the spokesman said.

“They were hunting him,” he said. The spokesman said it was too early to say if the murder was drug-related.”*

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