EL PASO, Texas -- A Mexican police commander who was shot several times in an ambush is under heavy police protection across the border in an El Paso hospital, a precaution local officials are taking because of the recent wave of violence in the neighboring city of Ciudad Juarez. Cmdr. Fernando Lozano Sandoval was shot Monday night in the Mexican city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso. He was one of three police officials shot in Juarez over two days, and the only one to survive. Lozano was transferred Tuesday to El Paso County's Thomason Hospital. Details of his condition were not available Thursday. El Paso police spokesman Officer Chris Mears said officers from his department are working with El Paso County deputy sheriffs and federal authorities to protect Lozano, an officer with the Chihuahua State Investigations Agency. Juarez officials told the El Paso Times that Lozano, 51, was transferred to the El Paso hospital Tuesday at the request of his family. He had been in critical condition at a Juarez hospital where he was guarded by armed Mexican soldiers. Margaret Althoff-Olivas, a hospital spokeswoman, told the newspaper that the added security at the hospital Wednesday was a response to recent violence in Juarez, which resulted in federal soldiers being dispatched to the city. She did not name Lozano specifically. Security was upgraded at the hospital Wednesday based on events in Mexico, where the recent violence in Juarez led to federal soldiers being dispatched to the city, hospital spokesman Jethro Armijo said. Thursday morning, two uniformed police officers, one carrying what appeared to be a military-style rifle, stood outside the hospital's emergency room where a line had formed to enter the building. Armijo said access to the hospital was limited to the emergency room's entrance and exit. Armijo said information about Lozano's condition was not being released for security reasons.
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