7 Killed in Continued Shootings in Mexican Border City

7 Killed in Continued Shootings in Mexican Border City
Police officers patrol in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, on April 5, 2018. Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP via Getty Images
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MEXICO CITY—Seven people were killed in a shootout between the army and suspected drug cartel gunmen in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo Wednesday.

The shootings were the second time in as many weeks that large-scale violence has hit Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas.