The death toll is spiraling throughout Mexico as a war between the country's government and the drug cartels intensifies.
A U.S. consulate employee and her husband were killed in a drive-by shooting in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican border city wracked by drug violence.
The wife and husband were in a car near the international bridge crossing into El Paso, Texas, the newspaper said, and a infant, presumably their daughter, survived the shooting unscathed.
US National Security Council Mike Hammer, in a statement earlier this morning said:
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A U.S. consulate employee and her husband were killed in a drive-by shooting in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican border city wracked by drug violence.
The wife and husband were in a car near the international bridge crossing into El Paso, Texas, the newspaper said, and a infant, presumably their daughter, survived the shooting unscathed.
"The President is deeply saddened and outraged by the news of the brutal murders of three people associated with the United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, including a U.S. citizen employee, her U.S. citizen husband, and the husband of a Mexican citizen employee. He extends his condolences to the families and condemns these attacks on consular and diplomatic personnel serving at our foreign missions. In concert with Mexican authorities, we will work tirelessly to bring their killers to justice."The State Department said in a statement Sunday that recent violent attacks have led the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City to advise American citizens to delay unnecessary travel to parts of the Mexican states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua.
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