Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say police accidentally killed a doctor in the Pacific state of Colima while looking for the assassins of an ex-governor.
State prosecutor Arturo Diaz says police were mounting an operation in the area where former Gov. Silverio Cavazos Ceballos was gunned down Sunday when the doctor was scared by the officers and ran.
Diaz told the Televisa network that police shot him when he ignored orders to stop.
Several police were detained.
Cavazos left office a year ago. He was killed outside his home in the capital city also called Colima. Economic Development Secretary Rafael Gutierrez Villalobos was wounded in the attack.
Diaz says the state has a sketch of one of the killers but no motives.