BY MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN AND E. EDUARDO CASTILLO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican authorities are trying to sort out why a U.S. Embassy vehicle was ambushed by federal police on a rural back road in mountains south of the capital, leaving two U.S. government workers wounded.
Officials from both nations said federal officers were chasing criminals Friday morning when a hail of bullets was fired at the embassy sport utility vehicle carrying the two employees and a Mexican Navy captain.
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The U.S. Embassy took nearly 12 hours to issue a statement Friday, but described the incident as an "ambush."
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Attacks on diplomatic personnel in Mexico were once considered rare, but this was the third shooting incident in two years.
