[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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Yes my Father is alive and well. Much of the reason is the Marijuana he smoked during chemotherapy. You are a cruel person. I don't like arguing with idiots and mean ignorant people so I am done with you.
Bottom line.....My poop hurts!
@ Fred Flintstone: Inhaling paint thinner fumes can get you high. Want to know why that's not illegal? Because it's a product meant to thin paint. Weed is illegal because it has no purpose other than to get you ****ed up.
MARY424, because I don't write in Spanish do you think I don't know it. Sorry you feel that way
thank u america for being between us . keep the mexican mafia as your problem .god bless arizona
legalize drugs, take out the money and the violence
HEY FLINTSTONE! Check this out:
Hemp is not marijuana. Although both hemp and marijuana are categorized as Cannabis Sativa, marijuana has an average potency of 5-15% THC (the chemical substance which gives marijuana its psychoactive properties) whereas hemp has less than 0.3%THC. At this concentration, hemp has no psychoactive properties.
Again, you have no clue. again.
Posted by: Mr. Wright
Sorry, you are clueless. You're obviously completely oblivious to the harms prohibition has caused on society, such as the drug war (failure), all to protect people from a harmless plant.
I'm not saying end the Drug War, I just realize that people have been smoking pot for 1,000's of years, and they aren't stopping because it is illegal. WE NEED TO REGULATE IT! By keeping it illegal, WE HAVE LOST CONTROL!
Why is alcohol legal when it's way worse than pot? can you answer that?
California will legalize Marijuana in November, Maybe this madness will begin to subside.
MARC,
A WORK VISA TAKES TIME , LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION, IF YOU'RE KIDS WERE STARVING AND THERE WAS NO WORK AND NOTHING BUT CORRUPTION IN YOUR COUNTRY, NO FUTURE FOR YOUR KIDS YOU'RE HONESTLY TELLING ME YOU WOULD CROSS OVER TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE KIDS AND FAMILY WERE KEPT SAFE AND ALIVE DESPITE ANYTHING ELSE? AND IF YOU SAY I'LL WAIT FOR MY WORK VISA, GOOD LUCK WAITING FOR IT.
Posted by: Mari
Mari, so what your saying is if you think it's alright you can break the law? if you feel justified in what your doing that there should be no legal ramifications for illegal acts? If you believe this then where are we as HUMANS – WE WOULD BE JUST LIKE ANIMALS WHO HAVE NO LAWS
Posted by: marc
FUNNY YOU DONT ANSWER THE QUESTION. BECAUSE GUESS WHAT, PARENTS WILL DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING TO MAKE SURE THEIR KIDS HAVE A FUTURE. BREAKING NEWS MARC, WE ARE ANIMALS ! WE'RE HUMANS WHO BREAK LAWS AND FIGHT AND HATE AND DO SO MANY OTHER HORRIBLE THINGS DESPITE BEING TOLD IT'S WRONG AND THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE. DO YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT MEXICANS WANT TO CROSS THE BORDER ILLEGALLY? WHY DONT YOU TALK TO SOMEONE WHO'S ACTUALLY DONE IT AND THEN TALK. YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHAT IT'S LIKE. BELIEVE ME IF THE IMMIGRATION PROCESS WAS EASIER WE'D GLADLY COME OVER LEGALLY TO AVOID PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND LAWS LIKE ARIZONA'S. BUT IT'S NOT LIKE THAT SO THAT'S WHAT WE RESORT TO.
Kyle, youre actually so incorrect. Really. You need to get an education.
Flintstone, are you really being personal on a blog?
You both need to roll a blunt and get a motel room, preferrably in Mexico.
Yes my Father is alive and well. Much of the reason is the Marijuana he smoked during chemotherapy. You are a cruel person. I don't like arguing with idiots and mean ignorant people so I am done with you.
Posted by: Fred Flintstone
As I said earlier, KYLE is obviously a sociopath. He's more concerned with telling others what they can and can't do to themselves to pay attention to all the people being killed over the rights to provide a black market product.
If Americans didn't buy the drugs...there would be no Mexican Cartel.
MARY 424
las leyes están en el lugar porque DIOS los permite ser
We should just invade Mexico.
Jason these reefer madness brick brains will never answer the question why is alcohol legal and marijuana illegal. It destroys their antiquated backwards argument against Marijuana. Reefer madness Propaganda has worked for the crowd that is over 55 but the younger people know it is all BS.