Mexican police chief killed in hail of bullets in Sinaloa

The police chief in Mexico's north-western Sinaloa state, Joel Ernesto Soto, has been killed while he was driving to the state capital, Culiacán.
Local police said gunmen had fired some two hundred bullets at his car.
Soto had survived an earlier ambush three weeks ago, when the convoy he was travelling in was attacked near the city of Mazatlán.
The state of Sinaloa is notorious for gang violence with the Sinaloa cartel the most deadly and violent.
It is not yet clear who may have been behind the attack on Soto.