Border Patrol Agent - Agent Fires Across Mexican Border At Suspected Smugglers Reuters - One Dead After U

PHOENIX Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:39pm EDT

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. Border Patrol real estate agent opportunity at diagnosed narcotic smugglers whom were being hurling boulders through Mexico surrounding the border in to Arizona, the particular company said on Thursday, and Mexican regulators stated one of them was killed.

Border Patrol brokers told her to reviews connected with two suspected smugglers in Nogales, Arizona, later Wednesday plus watched while they dropped prescription drugs to the Arizona side of the border, the bureau explained in the created statement.

The smugglers then fled back throughout the border towards Mexico along with "began assaulting the actual agents with rocks," that statement said.

One broker fired following a suspects refused jobs to stop the other of them unsurprisingly appeared to be hit, that record said.

A court arrest commander inside Nogales in your Mexican express connected with Sonora, claimed Thursday than a Mexican male seemed to be mortally wounded within that incident.

The shooting brought well-defined critique through Mexico's Foreign Ministry, which will said that the initial statement "creates serious, new doubts concerning the by using lethal drive by means of U.S. Border Patrol agents, some thing which both Mexican federal along with contemporary society strongly deplore in addition to condemn.

"It is critical which the specific U.S. bodies proceed which includes a timely and translucent investigation, plus take it to its greatest consequences," the actual ministry said in a very report provided for Reuters.

An FBI spokesman declined to comment, citing that investigation.

The taking pictures came up greater than a few days after a realtor was shot and mortally wounded at the U.S.-Mexico border inside an apparent pleasant criticism incident.

Nicholas Ivie, 30, has been reacting in order to a tripped sensor in close proximity to Naco, Arizona, in a location well-known regarding smuggling activities. Another broker appeared to be taken and wounded, along with a third factor appeared to be unharmed.

(Reporting simply by David Schwartz with Phoenix in addition to Lizbeth Diaz and also David Alire Garcia around Mexico City; Editing simply by Corrie MacLaggan as well as Bill Trott)