Mexican police find car bomb in border city of Juarez; no one hurt in controlled detonation
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}File photo. June 11, 2010: A Mexican policeman cordons off a crime scene. (Reuters)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican police have carried out the controlled detonation of a car bomb in Ciudad Juarez, across from Texas.
The federal Public Safety Department says a phone tip around midnight led authorities to a dead body in a car in a shopping center parking lot. In a second car, police found the bomb.
A Department statement issued Saturday said agents deactivated the device and removed most of the explosive material to analyze it.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Then they safely detonated the vehicle. There were no injuries.
Juarez is the same city where drug traffickers staged the first successful car-bombing in Mexico, killing three people in July.
There have been three other vehicle explosions in recent weeks in Ciudad Victoria, capital of the border state of Tamaulipas.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}More than 28,000 people have died in Mexico's drug violence since late 2006.