death toll rose to 14 in the weekend massacre at a boy’s birthday party in Ciudad Juárez, the Chihuahua State attorney general’s office said Sunday.
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Gunmen burst into the party in a small concrete house in a working-class Ciudad Juárez neighborhood on Friday and opened fire, killing 13 people immediately and wounding 20, state officials said. A 14th victim died in the hospital late Saturday night.
A 13-year-old girl was the youngest of the dead, which included several older teenagers. A 9-year-old boy was wounded.
Ciudad Juárez has become one of the most violent cities in the world since the Mexican government began its crackdown on drug cartels four years ago, and murder fueled by the drug trade has become so routine there that residents are not easily shocked. But the massacre on Friday night, like several other moments in the city this year, seemed to cross a line.
Mr. Calderón sent a message via Twitter, saying, “With sadness and profound indignation, the federal government expresses its most energetic repudiation of the murder of various young people in Ciudad Juárez.”
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Gunmen burst into the party in a small concrete house in a working-class Ciudad Juárez neighborhood on Friday and opened fire, killing 13 people immediately and wounding 20, state officials said. A 14th victim died in the hospital late Saturday night.
A 13-year-old girl was the youngest of the dead, which included several older teenagers. A 9-year-old boy was wounded.
Ciudad Juárez has become one of the most violent cities in the world since the Mexican government began its crackdown on drug cartels four years ago, and murder fueled by the drug trade has become so routine there that residents are not easily shocked. But the massacre on Friday night, like several other moments in the city this year, seemed to cross a line.
Mr. Calderón sent a message via Twitter, saying, “With sadness and profound indignation, the federal government expresses its most energetic repudiation of the murder of various young people in Ciudad Juárez.”
