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NAME: MEX SHOOTING 240305N TAPE: EF05/0263 IN_TIME: 11:19:03:24 DURATION: 00:00:55:18 SOURCES: Televisa DATELINE: Ciudad Juarez, 23 Mar 2005 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. Various of site where bodies were found 2. Pan of bodies scattered on the ground 3. Zoom out from the body of a dead man to reveal police officers 4. Body of a dead man 5. Police officers investigating corpses 6. Children allegedly caught in the crossfire 7. Body of dead man 8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Juan Manuel Escamilla, Public Security Director of Ciudad Juarez: "This case was a shootout in which we came to detain the suspects implicated in the slaying of a policeman yesterday, so these people (the shooters) have a background: one is a suspect on a murder case and the other one was just released from prison for drug trafficking." 10. Corpse being placed on stretcher 11. Paramedics carrying corpse in stretcher STORYLINE A shootout between police officers and suspected drug traffickers killed five people and injured nine others outside of Ciudad Juarez on the US-Mexican border on Wednesday. The officers were attempting to raid a safe house when they were ambushed by gunmen. A team of 26 municipal officers stormed into the Los Compadres neighbourhood outside the city around midday in search of suspects implicated in the Tuesday slaying of a police officer. The dead include Sergeant Miguel Angel Diaz and four male suspects linked to drug smuggling syndicates operating in Chihuahua and two other Mexican states. A female officer was shot four times in the chest, her colleague was hit three times and another officer sustained gunshot wounds to the legs and arms. A woman and two children were apparently injured in the crossfire, which occurred along a highway running southwest from Juarez to the community of Casa Grandes. On Tuesday a group of suspects attacked two Juarez police officers making a routine traffic check, grabbing their guns and opening fire before speeding away. An officer was killed in that attack and his partner was injured.