A Border Patrol agent in Arizona was shot early Tuesday, authorities said.
Details were scant, but Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol, said the agent was “involved in a shooting incident” and was hit with gunfire.
The agency said “several subjects” who were in the area were taken into custody, while the agent was taken to a hospital.
The shooting happened south of Arivaca, which sits about 10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, just north of a section of federal lands.
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