Police, cartel gunfight leaves baby dead

A Mexican federal police officer uses a dog to inspect a vehicle that was abandoned near the site where three municipal police officers were ambushed and killed by unknown gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Photo: AP
Municipal police comb the streets in a neighbourhood where three of their fellow officers were ambushed and killed by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Photo: AP
Municipal police officers cover a truck with sheet where two fellow officers were shot by unidentified assailants in the northern town of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Three police officers died in the shooting. Photo: AP
Police officers take cover behind a coroner's truck and a fence after coming under fire in Ciudad Juarez. A team of police officers and forensic workers were shot at while they were working on a crime scene where earlier three of their colleagues had been killed. Photo: Reuters
Mexican federal police patrol the streets in a neighbourhood after three municipal policemen were ambushed and killed by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Photo: AP

Published Dec 9, 2010

An eight-month-old boy was killed when he was caught in the middle of a gunfight between federal police and drug cartel hitmen in Mexico. According to authorities, the boy was in a taxi with his mother when he was struck by stray bullet. The boy's mother was not injured. Six federal police officers were injured during the confrontation with gunmen in the small town of El Alcalde.

Police said gunmen set fire to vehicles to prevent authorities from entering the town.