CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — A powerful car bomb has killed two policemen and injured four officers and three civilians outside the home of the top police official of the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas.
Tamaulipas state Interior Secretary Morelos Canseco says one of the wounded officers is in very serious condition. The three wounded civilians are neighbors of state Public Safety Secretary Rafael Lomeli who were injured by glass fragments from shattered windows.
Canseco says the bomb was detonated with a cellphone soon after Lomeli arrived at his home.
Lomeli was not injured in the attack early Tuesday.
There have been almost half a dozen car bomb attacks in Tamaulipas in recent years. The state has been hit by turf battles between the Gulf cartel and the rival Zetas gang.
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