[Updated at 7:17 p.m.] At least 15 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, as drug-related violence goes unabated, authorities said.
Police found seven young men killed in two locations in Juarez, police spokesman Jacinto Seguro told CNN.
Earlier Wednesday, eight men were shot to death outside a bar in what has become one of the country's deadliest cities, the state attorney general's office said.
It was the second violent day in a row that the city witnessed.
On Tuesday, 10 people were killed, Seguro said, including three who were shot outside a supermarket. Another victim, identified as Marin Orosco, was killed outside a mall hours later.
In all, 25 people were killed in a 24-hour period, Seguro said.
Ciudad Juarez is the most violent city in the nation, with more than 2,600 drug-related deaths in 2009. No official numbers are available for this year, but more than 400 killings have been reported by local media.
The city, long the focal point of President Felipe Calderon's battle against drug cartels, came to renewed prominence after the January 31 killings of 15 people, most of them students with no links to organized crime. The massacre sparked outrage throughout Mexico and drew worldwide attention.
In another incident that drew widespread attention, three people associated with the U.S. Consulate in Juarez were gunned down in two shootings last month. Two of the victims, including a pregnant woman, were U.S. citizens living in El Paso, Texas.
Arrests were made this week in the recent killings of federal police officers in Juarez, Seguro said. The suspects, members of the Juarez cartel, deny they were involved in the killings, he said.
[Posted at 3:04 p.m.] Eight men were shot to death early Wednesday morning outside a bar in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, one of the country's deadliest cities, the state attorney general's office said.
The victims, who remained unidentified, were shot outside the Aristos night club about 4:35 a.m., office spokesman Vladimir Tuexi told CNN.
Authorities recovered 12 shell casings at the scene, all 9 mm, he said.
Police were looking for a motive.
According to Chihuahua state police, the victims all had gunshot wounds to the head. Four of the victims were teenagers, three were in their early to mid-20s. The eighth man was about 40 years old, police said.
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You redneck dumb ass hillbilly's. You fools disgust me.
Carol, you do understand that US Canada and Mexico are not in the same continent right? I mean you can pull up any map of the world youd like, North America Houses the United States of America and Canada. M<exico is actually located in Central America.
No wonder you dont understand, you dont even live on the same planet. Its ok, soon youll understand. maybe.
Kyle – Again, one thing pot does bad, name it please...
If they are starving ... then why dont they stop having babies?? Then they would not have the need to enter illegally.
deaths from alcohol poisoning last year?
in the hundreds of thousands
deaths from lung cancer from smoking?
even higher
even though it is literally physically impossible to overdose and kill yourself on marijuana, the LD50 of weed is so high one would have to smoke up to 7-8 lbs to actually even start to damage their brain.
it's been proven to slow the process of alzheimers and MS.
do the research yourself and inform yourself before spouting the rhetoric of failed programs like D.A.R.E and the "war on drugs"
@ Fred Flintstone: Is your father still alive? Hopefully not.
US drug users and US weapons bring this bloodshed to our neighbors.
A lot of posters make references how we have to protect ourselves from "the invaders" What they forget is WE invaded Mexico. As President Grant said (Of the Mexican American War): "For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory"
Oh yeah – America with it's high moral ground....
Jason, also...think about this little factoid jackass.....the dealer who sold you your pot, probably is selling those nasty little things you talked about....meth,etc.....
Posted by: Mr. Wright
Yea, just like the convenient store who sold me a caffienated (more dangerous than pot) soda also sells cigarrettes. Surely, caffienated soda is the gateway drug to tobacco abuse. =/
You actually raise a good point though. 60% of cartel revenue comes from pot, and their drug channels are spearheaded by the channels they have for selling pot. Kill those channels by allowing users to buy regulated pot from a licensed, tax paying dealer, you take away that revenue and the channels. So logically, if you want abuse of drugs like cocaine, etc. to go away, legalize pot.
If we woke up in the morning and found out that tomato seeds would get you high would we outlaw tomatoes? Marijuana Prohibition is just about that stupid.
@ awe stuck: It's funny that you call D.A.R.E. and the Drug War failed programs because every endeavor you stoners make to legalize your addiction has failed miserably.
Anyone is syaing that this os "obviously" over drugs or "must be about drugs because Mexico has a big problem with drugs" is being more of a racist than any lawmaker or citizen of AZ. You're looking at Mexico and saying, "wow, they have a problem with drug cartels, so any time there's a murder, it must be over drugs". But for people in Arizona to say "We need to stop Mexicans form illegally crossing the border and send the ones that do get across back" we're being racist, but you're not by saying everything in Mexico has to do with drugs? And too add even more to that, if every single person and/or criminal in Mexico is involved with drugs, then why is it a bad thing that we don't want them here illegally?
Flintstone....you shouldn't argue with....Mr Wright.
i live in a mexico/texas border town. it is as dangerous as they say. all these people who say its not don't deal with it on a daily basis.... the drugs, the illegal immigrants, and the crime are spilling over into the united states every second. we need to be concerned. it stinks that the hardworking mexicans who are here to make a better life for themselves are paying for the crimes of others. but something has to changed. the border towns are becoming way to dangerous.
No one buys mexican brick weed do they? Sad.