Police Chief's Daughter Gunned Down in Mexico

Gunmen opened fire on a police chief's house in southern Mexico, killing his 23-year-old daughter and a bodyguard and wounding three others, police said yesterday. Anacleto Flores Valle, the chief of police in the Pacific coast town of Petatlan, was uninjured when heavily armed men in two trucks opened fire on his home Sunday. The gunmen fled and were not identified.

Elsewhere, federal police said yesterday that they detained two American women who were traveling in a Texas-plated pickup truck that had a gas tank loaded with marijuana. Police said the two women were caught speeding on a highway in the northern state of San Luis Potosi. Officers noticed that bolts around the gas tank had been manipulated and took the vehicle in for inspection. They found 200 pounds of marijuana hidden in a container in the gas tank. (More Mexico stories.)