Gunmen attacked a public transport van in southern Mexico and killed three people, including two students from the teachers college that had 43 students disappear in the hands of police two years ago.
Lawyer to jailed drug lord calls for an objective investigation of the attack that killed 5 military men in Sinaloa
The attack in Culiacán was apparently ordered to free a wounded detenee being transported in an ambulance guarded by the convoy.
According to the authorities, the army convoy and the ambulance, where a prison inmate was receiving medical attention, were ambushed at 3:05 am by an armed group.
A Sinaloa state official said the attack left the flaming hulks of army vehicles scattered on a road on the outskirts of the state capital, Culiacán.
In May, Egyptian authorities agreed to pay US$140,000 in compensation to each family of the eight Mexican tourists who died in an attack by Egypt security forces during a safari in September 2015.
As many as 20 were wounded by a knife-wielding man in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture.
The 18-year-old gunman was born and brought up in the Munich area and had spent time in psychiatric care, and there was no evidence to suggest he had had an accomplice.
Through his Twitter account, the president said that Mexico shares the grief of the German people.
The Bavarian Interior Ministry confirmed at least one dead and multiple people hurt.