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Nuevo Laredo Car Bomb Injures Two

By KGNS News

New images are coming in of that brazen attack carried out in front of a Nuevo Laredo police station.

A car bomb went off. in west nuevo laredo just after eight a-m Tuesday.

It happened only hours after seven men were killed in the streets.

Witnesses say they heard the loud explosion and saw flames several miles away.

Two people were reportedly hurt in the attack and transported to area hospitals.

No police officers were hurt, eventough their offices are only a few hundreds feet away.

Soon after the incident a massive gunfire reportedly broke out between the Mexican military and armed gunmen.

We're told as the soldiers blocked off the area, they were attacked by the gunmen who were driving in large trucks.

City leaders are calling the car bombing an isolated incident.

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