Mexico drug wars: 24 dead in 24 hours

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May 2, 2010 - Drug war violence in Mexico is reaching an all-time high with 24 dead in 24 hours over the weekend.

The majority of the deaths occurred in the Mexican state of Chihuahua where 10 people died. The remainder of the deaths were scattered over three other locations throughout the state with eight dead in Juarez, five killed in Cuahtemuc, and one killed in Parral.

The killings all occurred in public places. The five killed in Cuahtemuc were killed in a bar.

According to Carlos Gonzalez, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general, the killings took place between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.

All of the victims were males aged 18 to 25 years old.

No further details were released about the victims.

Violence picked up in April and is continuing into May.

The war is between the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels. The two cartels are battling for Juarez Plaza, the state’s drug trafficking corridor.

The weekend killings followed a brutal week when at least 15 people were killed in drug-related violence in Juarez on Wednesday, and on Tuesday, 10 people were killed.

The Wednesday slayings included four people whose bodies were found at one location, another three – one of them a woman – were found slain at a second location, and another eight who were killed at a bar, police spokesman Jacinto Seguro said.

The Tuesday killings included three who were shot outside a supermarket and another victim was killed outside a shopping mall.

In all 25 people were killed between Tuesday and Wednesday.

More than 2,600 drug-related deaths occurred in Ciudad Juarez in 2009. Ciudad Juarez is the most violent city in Mexico. There are no official numbers for this year but media have reported 500 killings with some reports as high as 810 in Juarez this year.

Mexico’s hardest-hit state, Chihuahua, is reported to have 6,757 people killed since the start of the drug war in 2006.

Learning of 24 deaths in 24 hours, after 15 died just days earlier, is causing a continued unrest for citizens living in the war zone.

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This is crazy. What is happening in Mexico is just wild... I didn't know the Cartels had this sort of power.