Mexican cop killed by colleague working as hit man

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - A Mexican police officer working as a hit man for drug gangs killed one of his police colleagues on Wednesday in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, police said.

Francisco Ventura was shot and killed by gunmen in twosport utility vehicles as he drove home early on Wednesday inCiudad Juarez across from El Paso, Texas. Federal policearrested three men following the shootout, including the policeofficer accused of leading the gunmen.

City police declined to give more details, but CiudadJuarez Mayor Jose Reyes said the discovery of a police officerworking as a hit MAN (MAN.XE)showed the urgent need for a "totalcleansing" of the city's police force.

"We know there are officers who are in the pay of organizedcrime and that is why we need to flush out bad police," Reyestold reporters.

Despite the deployment of 3,000 troops and federal policein Ciudad Juarez this year, more than 550 people have beenkilled in drug violence in the city, Mexico's most lethal frontin a drug war that has killed 1,900 people nationwide in 2008.

Daylight gun battles have erupted on city streets andbuildings set on fire as Mexico's most-wanted man, Joaquin"Shorty" Guzman, fights drug baron Vicente Carrillo Fuentes,boss of the Juarez cartel, for control of Ciudad Juarez and itslucrative smuggling corridor into the United States.

(Reporting by Ignacio Alvarado; Editing by Eric Beech)