Two Elderly Arizona Women Shot Dead in Car in Northern Mexico

MEXICO CITY—Two elderly women from Arizona were shot dead in a vehicle along a highway in Mexico’s northern Sonora state, local prosecutors said on Friday, adding they had immediately launched an operation to find those responsible. State prosecutors said the women, identified without their surnames as Enedina, aged 72, and Ubaldina, aged 82, were found in an overturned white Nissan Pathfinder off the side of the highway. The incident was reported at 10:30 a.m. The women were of dual U.S.-Mexican nationality, a local security source told Reuters. The highway where the women were found, a stretch from the town of Sonoyta by the border with Arizona to the city of Caborca, is infamous for violence and the trafficking of migrants searching for better opportunities and security in the United States....