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Six more dead in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

October 13, 2008 |  8:42 am

Drug-related violence at the end of last week carried over into the weekend, according to the Associated Press, which is reporting the killing of six young men at a family party in Ciudad Juarez.

The men, ages 20 to 25, were killed during a party in a house, said Alejandro Pariente, a spokesman for the regional attorney general's office. The motive for the attack was unknown.

At least 1,000 people have been killed this year in Ciudad Juarez, a city across from El Paso, Texas. Many of the deaths were attributed to warring drug gangs.

Read Tracy Wilkinson's report from Ciudad Juarez earlier this year here.

Click here for more on Mexico, and go to our "Mexico Under Siege" page here.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City


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