Attackers slit the throat of a teenage boy and a hostess for a soccer team was tortured and beheaded as suspected drug violence intensified in northern Mexico, police said Thursday.
Some 9,600 people have died in suspected drug-related attacks in Mexico since the start of 2008 despite a military clampdown involving some 40,000 troops deployed across the country. Police found a 15-year-old boy with his throat slit inside a house in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most volatile city, across from El Paso, Texas, a statement said Thursday. In a separate incident, attackers shot dead a woman in the southeast of the city outside her house.
Along the border to the northwest, police in the city of Tijuana found the headless, tortured body of a hostess for a second division soccer team in a garbage dump, local authorities said Thursday. Eight others died in the past 24 hours in Ciudad Juarez, and one person died in a mountainous area of the same state of Chihuahua, a key area in battles between drug cartels for control of trafficking routes into the United States. At least 2,800 people have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million, since the start of 2008. |