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A Mexican drug cartel was responsible for a cellphone-detonated car bomb that killed four people in a city on the US border, state security forces said. Dramatic TV images showed the moment of the blast. An eye-witness said the bomb went off as federal police drove up to help a city police officer who had just been shot and was being attended to by a paramedic. A local cameraman was filming the scene when the blast went off. Images showed an injured paramedic, an injured policeman on the side of the road and an almost completely destroyed car with one front wheel still intact and two federal police vehicles charred and on fire after the blast in the city's downtown. In the first attack of its kind during Mexico's drug war, the explosion tore through a major intersection in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas, late on Thursday (July 15) damaging nearby buildings and sending huge flames up into the air.
