The officers were in an unmarked car at about 10 p.m. at the Annie Coleman housing projects, known as “The Rockies,” when the men walked up to the vehicle and opened fire, the Miami Herald newspaper reported.
At least one of the officers fired back, John Rivera, the president of the Miami-Dade police union, said, and both survived the attack in the city’s Brownsville district.
“They were outnumbered and outgunned,” Rivera told the newspaper. “God was watching over them tonight.”
The unidentified officers were in stable condition at a local hospital, Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez told journalists.
“Our officers are out there every night risking their lives trying to bring safety to the community, and what you saw today was an ambush-style attack on our police officers,” Perez said.
One of the officers was shot in the leg, and the other was grazed by a bullet, the Herald reported.
Other police officers near the scene rushed the officers to a hospital in the back of a pickup truck, the newspaper reported. The two wounded men are part of the Homicide Task Gorce-Gang Unit, it added.
(Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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