CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – The mayor of the border city of Ciudad Juarez said federal police shot and killed one of his bodyguards Tuesday night.

Mayor Hector Murguia said his guards were outside a house where he was holding meetings when two masked federal police officers approached. He said his guards identified themselves but the federal police shot one of them anyway.

He identified the slain bodyguard as Jose Humberto Perez, 29.

"I am so furious and indignant ... about the killing of this young man for no reason," Murguia said. "If this is the way it is with the mayor, how must it be with regular citizens?"

Officials at the federal Public Safety Department, which oversees the federal police, said there would be a statement on the shooting later.

Carlos Gonzalez, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutors' office, said the shooting was under investigation and he could not provide further details.

Mexico's federal police are largely responsible for security in Ciudad Juarez, one of the most dangerous cities in the world due to a fierce turf war raging between the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels.

The shooting threatened to raise tensions in a city where many citizens are already angry that violence has only increased since the federal government deployed troops and federal police two years ago. More than 3,000 people were killed last year in the city of 1.3 million across the border from El Paso, Texas.

Murguia was inside the house when the shooting took place, and his life was not in danger. The house was near a hotel where the federal police are housed.

Murguia said he went to the hotel after the shooting to demand an explanation but the federal police there dismissed him with aggressive words.

"This is a very difficult situation," Murguia said. "It can't be that a masked assassin goes out and kills like this."

Source : Yahoo News