Two Elderly Arizona Women Shot Dead in Car in Northern Mexico

Mexican soldiers hold a banner reading "Mexican Army" next to a vehicle reported as stolen and used by gunmen near the site where two elderly women were shot dead at a highway in Mexico's northern Sonora state, in this undated handout distributed to Reuters on August 23, 2024. (Fiscalia General del Estado de Sonora (FGJES)/Handout via REUTERS)

MEXICO CITY—Two elderly women from Arizona were shot dead in a vehicle along a highway in Mexico’s northern Sonora state, local prosecutors said on Friday, adding they had immediately launched an operation to find those responsible.

State prosecutors said the women, identified without their surnames as Enedina, aged 72, and Ubaldina, aged 82, were found in an overturned white Nissan Pathfinder off the side of the highway. The incident was reported at 10:30 a.m.