Thursday, August 14, 2008

Eight killed during Mass

An armed group killed at least eight people during mass in a drug rehabilitation centre in a Mexican border town late yesterday.

Nearby security forces allowed the attackers to flee, police in Ciudad Juarez said, quoting witnesses.

An armed group "entered (the building) shooting at people who were praying, killing or injuring many of them," the municipal office of public security said in a statement, quoting witnesses.

After the shooting, the assassins "fled, without rushing, down Barranco Azul avenue, where there was a group of soldiers and ministerial police who did nothing to detain them,'' the statement said.

At least eight people were killed, but the final tally could be higher, local police said.

Two people were killed in a nearby rehabiliation center last weekend, in a town where the country's drug wars are played out daily.

Federal authorities have deployed more than 36,000 soldiers across the country, including 2500 in Ciudad Juarez, in an effort to combat drug trafficking and violence, but some ,000 people have been killed so far this year.

Authorities attribute some 780 assassinations in Ciudad Juarez this year to turf wars between drug cartels.

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