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9 die in Chihuahua city bar
For a map, click here For a map of Chihuahua state, click here.By Chris Covert A total of nine individuals were shot to death and seven others were wounded in a shooting early Saturday morning in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to Mexican news accounts. The shooting took place at the Far West bar near the intersection of calles Leandro Valle and Teófilo Borunda Norte in Santo Niño colony. At least 20 shooters burst into the bar at around 0130 hrs. Two of the victims were women, one of which was a municipal police agent. El Diario de Juarez news daily identified the victims as Julio Alberto Barraza Flores, Marco Antonio Murga Rojas, Cesar Reyes Ocaña, Jorge Luis Rivera Mendoza, Rocio Zuñiga Sanchez, Fernando Rivera Castañeda, Elizabeth Zafiro Quintana, Jorge Luis Mendoza Rivera and Vicente Romero Cruz. According to La Polaka news daily, the dead police agent was identified as Elizabeth Zafiro of Grupo Beta. Five of the dead were identified as the norteno music group La 5th Banda. News reports characterized the number of spent rifle shell casings as in the hundreds. The massacre is the worst single incident of violence in Chihuahua state against civilians in a year. Last summer, Chihuahua state and Mexican federal government officials made much of the fact that intergang and drug violence was on the decline, so much so a Policia Federal unit left Juarez, as well as one Mexican Army unit. With this shooting and a number of others in recent weeks, it appears drug and gang related violence may well be on the upswing. Posted by: badanov 2012-02-05 |
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