The World : Mexico Newscaster Killed

Mexican law officers stalking drug traffickers mistakenly shot and killed a Juarez television newscaster, her mother-in-law and a friend, authorities said. Police mistook the journalist’s car for one spotted near the crash site of a plane believed to have been ferrying cocaine, the official Notimex news agency reported. XHIJ-TV said its anchorwoman, Linda Bejarano, 28, was killed along with Lucresia Martinez de Gomez, 58, and Carlos Alfonso Garcia, 25. Bejarano’s husband, Manuel Gomez, was in the car that was attacked about 3:30 a.m. near downtown Juarez, but he was not injured. Federal police officials told the station that the gunmen were noncommissioned officers.