Mexico car blast kills policeman

PACHUCA, Mexico: A policeman was killed and three others wounded Saturday when an abandoned car rigged with explosives detonated in the central state of Hidalgo, local police said.

Police said they believe the bomb was set by the Zetas, one of Mexico's deadliest drug cartels.

The officers were responding to information sent anonymously stating that there was a body inside a car parked outside the town of Tula, some 90 kilometres (56 miles) north of Mexico City.

There was no body, Tula Mayor Rodolfo Paredes told AFP, and the bomb exploded when the officers opened the car trunk.

Near the charred vehicle agents found a message from the bombers with threats against police. Canales said it could be a revenge attack following a recent gun battle in Tula in which police shot two Zetas dead.

The Zetas are led by former elite soldiers who began working for the Gulf drug cartel in the 1990s, then split and formed their own group. It is now one of Mexico's six main drug cartels.

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