MEXICO CITY—Heavily armed gunmen attacked Mexico City’s police chief along the city’s most famous boulevard on Friday morning, in a failed assassination attempt that officials said marked a brazen challenge by the country’s most powerful organized crime group, the Jalisco cartel. At least three people, including two bodyguards of police chief Omar García Harfuch, died in the attack in Mexico City’s posh Lomas de Chapultepec district, authorities said. A woman on her way to work was also killed as gunmen opened fire on the...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 26, 2020 17:22 UTC