Gunman Shoots 6 at Government Building in Northern Mexico

Five guards and a state employee were wounded when a subject opened fire Thursday outside the Governor’s Palace in Saltillo, the capital of the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, officials said. “It was a direct attack on the guards, wounding five police officers and a civilian who was working there,” state security spokesman Jesus Carranza told Efe. Coahuila has been at the center of a turf war among the Los Zetas, Gulf and Sinaloa drug cartels in recent years, leading to a spike in violence in the state...more