State government officials blamed Mexican cartels for the death of a U.S. rancher from south Texas who was killed by an improvised explosive device left on the U.S. side of the Mexico border. “A tragic and alarming incident occurred near Brownsville,

A Texas border rancher was killed near the border by a suspected cartel IED earlier this month, the Texas Department of Agriculture told The Post Tuesday — as officials issued an urgent safety warning for the Rio Grande Valley.

A Texas rancher was killed by an explosive device on a road while traveling through Mexico earlier this month, officials said on Tuesday.