The Mexican capital's police Omar García Harfuch suffered three bullet wounds as he and his bodyguards were attacked by sniper rifles and grenades in the city's most upmarket neighborhood. Shocking surveillance camera footage captured the moment heavily armed gunmen ambushed Mexico City's police chief and killed two cops and a civilian Friday morning. One of the individuals is a native of Colombiaīy Ryan Fahey For Mailonline and Adry Torres For At least 12 suspects who participated in the attack were arrested.Gabriela Gómez Cervantes was killed in the crossfire while she was inside her car.and Rafael O., who were assigned to Garcia Harfuch's security detail were killed Garcia Harfuch suffered three gun shot wounds and was 'out of danger' following the attack, according to Mexico City's mayor.A surveillance camera showed a group of assassins allegedly linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel preparing to carry out the assault.Mexico City's police chief Omar Garcia Harfuch was shot at around 6.30am Friday.In a tweet, President Donald Trump offered to help Mexico "wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth." But Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected that approach, saying his predecessors waged war, "and it didn't work.Security camera captures moment 'Jalisco cartel' gunmen ambush Mexico City's police chief with sniper rifles and grenades leaving two cops dead in city's most upmarket neighborhood This is a whole new level," said Taylor Langford, a relative of the dead who splits his time between the Mexican community and his home in the Salt Lake City suburb of Herriman, Utah. Around the ambush scene, which stretched for miles, investigators found over 200 shell casings, mostly from assault rifles. While a drug-related violence has been raging for years in Mexico, the attack underscored the way cartel gunmen have become increasingly unconcerned about killing children as collateral damage. The victims had set out to visit relatives in Mexico one woman was headed to the airport in Phoenix to meet her husband. The bloodshed took place Monday in a remote, mountainous area in northern Mexico where the Sinaloa cartel has been engaged in a turf war. Mexican Security Secretary Alfonso Durazo said the gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for those of rival gangs. One woman was killed after she apparently jumped out of her vehicle and waved her hands to show she wasn't a threat, according to family members and prosecutors. But at least five had gunshot wounds or other injuries and were being treated in the U.S., where they were listed as stable, officials and relatives said. Eight youngsters were found alive after escaping from the vehicles and hiding in the brush.
citizens living in northern Mexico – in a grisly attack that left one vehicle a burned-out, bullet-riddled hulk, authorities said Tuesday. Drug cartel gunmen ambushed three SUVs along a dirt road, slaughtering six children and three women – all U.S.
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