Mexico, May 03: The latest round of bloody drug-related violence has claimed 25 more lives in Mexico’s Chihua-hua state, bordering the United States.
On Sunday, Seven of the slayings took place in Ciudad Juarez, dubbed Mexico’s murder capital. That brings to 62 the number of people killed in the city over the past week alone.
The 18 other slayings overnight included four people fatally shot by automatic weapons in a bar in the town of Camargo, near the state capital Chihuahua City, and two women whose bodies were found stuffed in the trunk of an abandoned car in the same town.
So far this year, more than 850 people have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million. Over 2,660 were killed in the city in 2009, according to official figures.
More than 22,700 people have died across Mexico in suspected drug violence since the end of 2006, despite a government-ordered nationwide crackdown on drug gangs that involved the deployment of thousands of troops and special police forces.
——-Agencies