Mexico gunmen `kill 12 young people at party`
Baku, October 23 (AZERTAC). At least 12 people have been shot dead at a house party in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, officials say.
A group of gunmen burst into the party late on Friday and began shooting, police said. At least another 10 people were injured.
Police said the victims were aged 14-20. The attackers escaped with no arrests made, a state prosecutor said.
Ciudad Juarez has been wracked by such shootings as violence among drug gangs has escalated in recent years.
The gangs are competing over lucrative drug smuggling routes into the US, making the city one of the bloodiest frontlines in Mexico`s drugs war, despite the presence of some 4,500 police and soldiers.
Almost 5,000 people have died in the city in the past two years.
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