Prosecutor Calls Attack on Governor a Hoax

A reported assassination attempt in March that left a Mexican state governor in the hospital was a hoax, the attorney general’s office said Friday.

Records show that a policeman died of bullet wounds as a result of the incident and most of the bullets came from the gun of the governor’s bodyguard, the prosecutor’s office said.

Oaxaca Gov. Jose Murat, who said he came under fire March 18 as he drove to a breakfast meeting in the state capital, might have covered up the facts, said deputy prosecutor Gilberto Higuera Bernal. Murat called the conclusion a farce.