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| Drug Gunmen Slaughter 13 High School Children At Party In Ciudad Juarez |
| 2010-01-31 |
| Suspected drug hitmen burst into a party and killed 13 high school students, on Sunday in Ciudad Juarez, the latest massacre in one of the world's deadliest cities, Mexican media and witnesses said. Gunmen jumped out of sport utility vehicles and fired at the students, who were celebrating victory in a local American Football championship, in a house in the city across the border from El Paso, Texas, in the early hours of Sunday. "The men drove up in four SUVs, they were well-armed. They went into the house and shot at everyone, you could hear the gunfire all around," a neighbour at the scene said. It was not immediately clear why the gunmen attacked the students. But drug hitmen have attacked parties in the city, searching for rivals, while police have reported that some teenagers have been involved in kidnapping others. Ciudad Juarez is the bloodiest city in Mexico's drug war as rival cartels fight over markets and control of smuggling routes into the United States. Violence is escalating even as federal police and soldiers patrol the streets. Some 2,650 people were killed in drug violence in Ciudad Juarez last year and cartel murders have jumped since the start of 2010. In some of the worst attacks, gunmen have stormed at least seven drug rehabilitation clinics in the manufacturing city over the past two years targeting rival dealers. Two strikes in September killed 28 people. Mexico is the key transit route for U.S.-bound cocaine from South America and a top producer of marijuana and heroin. A military crackdown on rival cartels in Mexico has fuelled a surge in drug violence that has killed more than 17,000 people over the past three years. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #2 At the rate they're going, Columbus New Mexico Part II is just a matter of time. They've been too busy to notice how the Taliban and AQ leaders have fared lately. El Drug Jefe that survives will enjoy Gitmo for life. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-01-31 18:30 |
| #1 Going from bad to worse. One of the safest cities in the US is just over the border. Safe for how much longer? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-01-31 17:06 |