Mexico: 13 dead in massacre at house party in Juárez
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - Gunmen stormed two homes and massacred 13 young partygoers in the latest large-scale attack in this violent border city, even as a new government strategy seeks to restore order with social programs and massive police deployments.
Attackers in two vehicles pulled up to the houses in a lower-middle-class neighborhood late Friday and opened fire on about three dozen youths attending a party. The dead identified so far were 16 to 25 years old, the Chihuahua state attorney general’s office said Saturday in a statement.
Fifteen were wounded, including a 9-year-old boy.
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A forensic worker snaps a picture of a dead man inside a home in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Friday Oct. 22, 2010. At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on this house during a party in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)
Also, at least ten other people were killed the same day in Juarez, and there have been at least four other days in October in which 19 people were killed. The El Paso Times doesn’t begin to cover the bloodbath in Juarez.