| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | February 2009 
218 Dead this Year in Mexico Border City Violence
 Agence France-Presse
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Ciudad Juarez, Mexico — At least 218 people have died so far this year in suspected drug attacks in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, including four more deaths reported Friday, authorities said.
Drug-related deaths escalated countrywide to more than 5,300 in 2008 amid a government crackdown on cartels fighting for control of key trafficking routes in the United States.
Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, has been worst hit, with more than 1,600 deaths reported in 2008 in the city of some 1.5 million.
Police found two male bodies in a working class district of the city on Friday and the prosecutor's office reported finding the bodies of two young men in another poor neighborhood.
Suspected drug traffickers also shot dead two men near the state capital Chihuahua, local justice officials said, and another was shot dead in the town of Baborigame, also in Chihuahua state.
The government of President Felipe Calderon has deployed more than 36,000 troops across the country as part of a crackdown launched more than two years ago.
Mexico: More Killed in Drug Violence
UPI
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Mexico City - Five men were found murdered in the Northern Mexican town in El Millon, their bodies showing signs of torture, police said.
The bodies were found by authorities in the middle of the night left in the street, El Universal reported Friday.
El Millon was the scene of a grisly discovery last week when three human heads were left in the town square.
The killings in El Millon has been attributed to the continuing drug violence in Northern Mexico where some 5,000 were killed last year. |
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