Gunmen in Mexico have killed another top Mexican police official - just one day after the head of the national anti-narcotics effort was shot dead.
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Mr Robles was flown to a nearby hospital, but died shortly afterwards.
The news came as Mexico's president was attending a memorial service honouring three other senior police officers.
President Felipe Calderon said these latest attacks would not deter his efforts to continue his government's campaign against the drugs trafficking cartels operating in the country.
"We have to come together to confront this evil, we Mexicans have to definitively and categorically say 'That's enough!'," he said.
"We can't accept this situation, we have to take back our streets," he added.
Mr Robles was the fourth top policemen to have been killed in Mexico City in the past 10 days.
He was ambushed by four gunmen in a truck and shot as he was driving out of his house in Mexico City, officials said.
Retaliatory attacks
Edgar Millan Gomez, the official who died on Thursday, was in charge of co-ordinating national police operations against drugs traffickers.
He was shot nine times outside his home and died in hospital. Police are investigating whether the attack was drug-related.
The White House has again called on the United States Congress to pass legislation that would allow more than $1bn of aid to be used in the fight against Mexico's drug cartels.
Mexico has seen a surge in drug-related killings recently. Last year, 2,500 people were killed; so far this year, 1,100 people have been killed.
Mr Calderon has sent nearly 30,000 soldiers and federal police to fight Mexico's powerful drug cartels since he took office in 2006.
The drugs cartels have fought back by attacking security forces. They are also fighting each other to control lucrative trafficking routes.
(BBC)
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