The city's public security chief Omar Garcia Harfuch suffered three bullet wounds as he and bodyguards came under heavy fire around dawn in an upscale Mexico City neighbourhood, where the attack was captured on security cameras. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said the attack showed that authorities were putting pressure on criminal gangs in the capital, which has rarely witnessed such brazen outbreaks of violence. A forensic investigator collects cartridges at the scene where the Mexican capital's police chief was attacked by gunmen in Mexico City on Friday. Relatives of a passerby killed in Friday's shooting mourn at the crime scene in Mexico City. Mexico City attorney general Ernestina Godoy said 12 suspects were arrested.

Source: CBC News June 26, 2020 18:00 UTC