2 gunmen killed by Nayarit’s first lady’s bodyguards

Two gunmen were shot to death by the security detail for the Nayarit state governor’s wife while she was in the neighboring western state of Jalisco, Mexican officials said Wednesday.

The Nayarit state government said via Twitter that María Luisa Aguirre de Echevarría was at a fast-food restaurant in a shopping center in Zapopan outside Guadalajara when assailants entered and began shooting at another customer.

The government said the apparent target had no ties to the first lady. Her bodyguards fired at the gunmen, killing two of them. Aguirre was unharmed. Local media reported that her . . .