Gunmen attack Mexican border bar, killing 5
Gunmen shot up a bar and then threw in fire bombs, killing three men and two women in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, an official said Saturday. The deaths came a day after a shooting attack on another bar in the city caused 10 deaths.
A motive had not been determined and it was unclear if the victims died of bullet wounds, burns or smoke inhalation, Chihuahua state prosecutors’ spokesman Arturo Sandoval said. He said the bodies were charred by the fire started by the gasoline bombs at the Barritas bar late Friday
Sandoval said police found .223-caliber shell casings at the scene, a type frequently used by gunmen for drug gangs.
Some 6,000 people have died in drug cartel turf battles the past two years in Ciudad Juarez, which sits across the border from El Paso, Texas.