7 killed at park in besieged Mexican border city
A massacre at a stadium built to honor the victims of a previous massacre, less than a year ago.
Also: Three killed in Juarez near site of soccer field shootingsCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico—Gunmen spraying automatic weapons fire killed seven people at a park that had been built as an anti-violence measure in the besieged border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said Monday.
Chihuahua state prosecutors’ spokesman Carlos Gonzalez said the assailants arrived at the park in the Francisco I. Madero neighborhood and opened fire Sunday afternoon. Four people, including a 12-year-old girl, were hospitalized in critical condition, and one later died of his wounds.
Investigators found 180 bullet casings from the sort of assault weapons typically used by drug gangs, Gonzalez said, though they had not yet identified the perpetrators or a motive.
The park was inaugurated four months ago as part of a government program called Todos Somos Juarez, or We’re All Juarez, to reduce violence and improve life for the city’s 1.3 million residents.
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JUAREZ — Three men were shot dead late this morning only five blocks from the soccer field where gunfire erupted Sunday afternoon killing seven and wounding three, police said.Two of the men died at the scene about 11:20 a.m. and one on the way to the hospital. Police have not said whether the two incidents in northwest Juarez are connected.
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Here’s a news report from last week about getting the stadium ready for its dedication: