BY JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA
MEXICO CITY—Drug-cartel gunmen were responsible for the shooting of two U.S. government law-enforcement agents, the governor of the Mexican state where the men were attacked said Wednesday.
What is still unclear, however, is why the men were attacked.
Jaime Zapata, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent, was killed Tuesday while driving along a rural Mexican highway with another ICE agent, who was wounded. The second agent, who hasn't been identified, was shot twice in the leg and has been taken back to the U.S. where he is in stable condition, American officials said.
"There was a confrontation, where organized crime....made ...
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