Armed men storm bar in Mexican city, killing 8

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/29/c_13271810.htm

Armed men storm bar in Mexican city, killing 8

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Pic of some bullshit in mexico.


MEXICO CITY, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Eight people, including two teenagers, were killed when a group of armed men stormed a bar in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez Tuesday night, the authorities said on Wednesday.

There were some 30 people at the bar when the attack occurred, the Prosecutor's Office of Chihuahua state said in a statement issued on Wednesday. Ciudad Juarez, bordering the U.S. state of Texas, is part of Chihuahua State.

Witnesses said that the hit men separated the victims before killing them.

The preliminary investigation showed that all the slain were under 25 years old and two of them under 18.

Ciudad Juarez is notorious for rampant violence among criminal cartels.

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What else would you expect from a collapsed, third world state? I don't think anyone should vacation in Cancun, Cabo or anywhere else in Mexico.

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Later the same day.

http://www.topix.com/topstories/mexico

Mexico: Gun Battle Outside School
By ELISABETH MALKIN
Published: April 28, 2010


Three people were killed in a drive-by shooting in front of children playing outside during recess in a kindergarten and elementary school in the border city of Ciudad Juárez on Wednesday, a local newspaper reported. Gunmen in one car opened fire on another as it traveled past the school, killing two men and a woman inside, the paper, El Diario de Juárez, reported. Earlier on Wednesday, gunmen burst into a bar in the city, took eight men or boys out to the parking lot and executed them, the Chihuahua State prosecutor’s office said. Despite the presence of more than 10,000 soldiers and police officers in the city, violence continues unabated.

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Every man woman and child needs to be armed down there, It's just getting worse.

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Now they'll be coming over in droves as did the Cuban refugee.

The Fed. will most likely designate Arizona as the camp state, if this is the case.

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link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100429/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico_violence;_ylt=Ajo2YwEZUiPPfnEkr dX3lyqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTN2ZmxxNzFkBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwM TAwNDI5L2x0X2RydWdfd2FyX21leGljb192aW9sZW5jZQRjY29 kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzYEcG9zAzMEcHQDaG9tZV9jb 2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawNzaG9vdGluZ3N raWw-)

Shootings kill 16 people in Mexican border city


By OLIVIA TORRES, Associated Press Writer Olivia Torres, Associated Press Writer – Wed Apr 28, 11:49 pm ET

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Gunmen stormed into a bar, dragged out eight people and killed them in the parking lot, the first of several shootings in this violent border city Wednesday that left 16 dead, including a man in a wheelchair.

In one incident, a car chase and shootout killed three people in front of an elementary school, creating a panic among students, teachers and parents.

Battles between rival drug gangs have made Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, one of the world's deadliest cities. More than 800 people have been killed this year in the city of 1.3 million people.

Armed men burst into the Aristos bar in the middle of the night, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office. Eight people were forced out into the parking lot and shot to death.

The victims had not been identified, but Sandoval said at least one appeared to be a teenage boy.

The shootout in front of the Benito Juarez elementary school erupted hours later. Sandoval said a woman and two men were found dead inside a car.

Gunmen in a car chased down another vehicle and opened fire in front of the school around noon, said a teacher who asked not to be quoted by name out of fear for his safety.

The teacher said a pregnant teacher and three students suffered panic attacks and were taken to a hospital. Classes were canceled for the rest of the day, and parents rushed to pick up their children.

Gunmen opened fire on another car elsewhere in the city, killing four young men inside, Sandoval said. Separately, a gang of armed men killed a man sitting in a wheelchair on the sidewalk, he said.

Police had no information on the identities of any of the gunmen.

The army, meanwhile, reported that it freed 16 hostages Tuesday at a house in Sabinas Hidalgo, a town near the northern city of Monterrey. One of the hostages was a 1-year-old child.

Troops acting on an anonymous tip arrived at the house in helicopters, a statement said. Gunmen opened fire and soldiers fired back from the air. Two people were found dead inside the house but it was unclear if they were captors or hostages.

Soldiers also seized two tons of marijuana, nine guns and a grenade launcher. It was unclear why the 16 people were being held hostage.

It was the second time in two days that soldiers freed hostages in the northern state of Nuevo Leon. On Monday, troops killed three suspected kidnappers and freed seven of their captives during a raid on a ranch. Two rotting bodies were found in a truck near the ranch.

Meanwhile, four inmates were killed early Tuesday when an armed gang stormed a prison in the northern town of Altamira, the Tamaulipas state government said in a statement.

It was unclear who killed the two men and two women.

A local police report said the gang attacked as 11 inmates were being transferred to the prison, but authorities did not confirm reports that the raid was an attempt to free prisoners or that a gunfight broke out with security forces.

Gang raids on prisons are common in Tamaulipas, a state bordering Texas where a bloody battle has broken out between the Gulf cartel and its former ally, the Zetas gang of hit men.

In the Pacific coast state of Guerrero on Wednesday, gunmen killed the mayor of the small town of Zapotitlan Tablas while he was in the state capital of Chilpancingo.

Mayor Jose Santiago Agustino gained notoriety in 2009, when he complained that a government hospital built in his region more than a decade earlier had never opened. The region is also plagued by violent crime and drug trafficking.