Mexican investigators on Tuesday pointed to organized crime in the killing of a top federal official in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas the previous day, saying it was likely retaliation for the authorities' recent seizures of stolen fuel there. The assassination took place in the northern city of Reynosa along the Texas border.

On Monday, gunmen killed Ernesto Vásquez Reyna, the Attorney General's Office Tamaulipas state delegate, in broad daylight in the middle of the busiest avenue of the border city of Reynosa, officials said.

The Attorney General's Office said in a statement that preliminary information suggested the killing was retaliation by a group it did not name. In a social media post , the attorney general sent "its most sincere condolences to family members, colle

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