Gunmen lay in wait to ambush man hunting them

IT was an outrageous attack even by the Cartel Jalisco New Generation’s standards for violence.

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As it drove down Paseo de la Reforma, one of Mexico City's grandest avenues, a truck and an SUV pulled into the path of an armoured vehicle carrying the country’s police chief Omar Garcia Harfuch.

Would-be assassins rained sniper fire and grenades on the car of the man viewed as an enemy of the lawless cartel

TARGET Omar Garcia Harfuch