10 people, including a six-year-old girl, were shot dead in Mexico on Monday, after a group of gunmen opened fire in a Mexican city on the United States border that has experienced much drug-trafficking related violence.
Officials in Ciudad Juarez told Reuters that seven men, two women and the aforementioned child died when gunmen drove up to the 10 people, who were celebrating a baseball game on Sunday night at a house in Loma Blanca, and started shooting.
According to the attorney general's office in Chihuahua state, Ciudad Juarez has seen its fair share of violence between drug smugglers fighting in turf wars to gain control of certain areas. A handful of drug cartels, including the Juarez, Sinaloa and Zetas organizations, work out of Chihuahua. The city was the most violent in the country for a few years until 2012, when the death toll went down.
"At this time, investigators have registered the deaths of eight men and a 6-year-old girl, as well as other people who were wounded," spokesperson Carlso Gonzalez told media source Efe.
Nine of the people who were gunned down died on site, while the tenth person was rushed to the hospital. Gonzales said that the reason for the shooting was still unclear, and that police were conducting an investigation into the deaths.
"The people killed were not armed, they were attacked suddenly," he stated.
Gonzales said this was the worst attacks the border city has seen in the recent past. Reuters reported that in the area, about 1,000 people die a month because of turf wars and gang-related violence.
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