Two alleged agents of the CIA died earlier this month in an accident in Chihuahua, a border state in northwestern Mexico / Reuters Mexico’s attorney general’s office on Tuesday announced a full investigation into two US CIA agents,

Two U.S. officials killed in a vehicle crash as they returned from destroying a clandestine drug lab in northern Mexico over the weekend were working for the CIA.

Mexico's president orders an investigation after a crash killed two U.S. officials and two Mexican officials linked to a clandestine drug lab operation.

Washington has made clear there will be no explanations, let alone apologies, after two CIA agents died in a road accident in Chihuahua during an operation kept secret from the Mexican government.

The crash, following an operation to destroy a clandestine drug lab, has reignited a debate over U.S. involvement in Mexican security operations.

A vehicle crash killed two Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials en route from destroying a drug lab in northern Chihuahua, Mexico, on Sunday, sources told The Associated Press. Three people who spoke to the AP on Tuesday on the condition of anonymity confirmed the CIA’s involvement.

Also on Monday, President Sheinbaum responded to the shooting in Washington, D.C., on Saturday that was perpetrated by a man who allegedly wanted to target U.S. President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials.

Mexico leaned on US intelligence to arrest an alleged cartel boss with a $5 million bounty on his head, although officials stressed that no foreign agents were on the ground for the operation.