Gunmen kill newspaper editor in Mexico

A top editor of the weekly newspaper Zeta was shot dead Tuesday afternoon in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, the Mexican official news agency Notimex reported.

The editor, Francisco Javier Ortiz Franco, was gunned down by two unidentified men when he drove a car through the city with his two children.

Ortiz was killed at the scene, but the children, aged eight and 10, were unharmed.

Tijuana is home to a drug smuggling group led by the Arellano Felix crime family.

As the Zeta newspaper has made efforts to reveal the criminal activities in the city, its employees have become targets of attacks. In April 1988, the newspaper's co-founder, Hector Felix Miranda, was murdered by gunmen.