Wounded Mexican police official treated in El Paso hospital

AP/Examiner:

A Mexican police commander who was shot several times in an ambush is under heavy police protection in an El Paso hospital, a precaution local officials are taking because of the recent wave of violence in neighboring Ciudad Juarez.

Cmdr. Fernando Lozano Sandoval, of the Chihuahua State Investigations Agency, was shot Monday night in the Mexican city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso. He was one of three police officials shot in Juarez over two days, and the only one to survive.

Lozano, identified by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office as a U.S. citizen, was taken Tuesday to El Paso County's Thomason Hospital, the only Level 1 trauma center within 280 miles. Details of his condition were not available Thursday.

El Paso police spokesman Officer Chris Mears said officers from his department are working with El Paso County deputy sheriffs and federal authorities to protect Lozano.

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Juarez officials told the El Paso Times that Lozano, 51, was transferred to the El Paso hospital Tuesday at the request of his family. He had been in critical condition at a Juarez hospital where he was guarded by armed Mexican soldiers.

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The fight appears to be from Brownsville-Matamoras in the south to El Paso-Juarez on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. The drug insurgency is under attack and is fighting back, but I don't think the Mexican government is going to let it win this time. Good luck to Cmdr. Lozano.

I do not blame his family for requesting the move. A singer who was wounded in a hit was later killed on the operating table in the hospital where she was taken for treatment, in Matamoras.

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