Mexico’s president seeks answers after 2 US Embassy officials die in crash following drug raid | CNN

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she was seeking answers from the United States after two US Embassy officials and two Mexican agents were killed in a car accident in the north of the country following a drug raid. The victims of Sunday’s accident were part of Chihuahua’s State Investigation Agency (AEI) and a training program with the US embassy, the state’s attorney general César Jáuregui Moreno said. Among the deceased are AEI regional director Pedro Ramón Oseguera Cervantes and his bodyguard Manuel Genaro Méndez Montes, as well as two instructors from the United States Embassy in Mexico. The accident occurred on the Chihuahua–Ciudad Juárez highway, when the officials were returning from an operation in the municipality of Morelos, where state authorities dismantled a drug-processing laboratory, according to initial reports. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Sheinbaum said she was not informed that US officials would be taking part in the operation targeting the drug laboratory. “We were unaware of any direct collaboration between the state of Chihuahua and personnel from the US Embassy in Mexico,” Sheinbaum said at a press conference. “The relat