Mexico City: At least 18 people including seven women were killed in a single day in Mexico’s violent city.
First incident took place at the Las Torres Bar on a low-end commercial strip in a rough Juarez neighborhood. Unidentified armed accused opened fire on people inside the bar, killing eight and seriously wounding three others. Seven of the dead were women.
“They fired indiscriminately,” a spokesman for the state prosecutor’s office, Carlos Gonzalez, said.
Another 10 people were killed in other shooting incidents in Ciudad Juarez. The city across from El Paso has long been plagued by murders and kidnappings as rival drug gangs fight for control.
More than 3,000 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez last year, according to official government statistics.
Mexico’s interior minister, Francisco Blake Mora, said there was “no sign or element of a connection” between the groups. “Quit the contrary,” he told a radio interviewer, “these are two very different phenomena.”
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the U.S. administration has repeatedly sought to back away from such a description, which angers Mexican officials because it suggests, among other things, that the traffickers, like insurgents, desire to topple the government.
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