Life & times in Southern New Mexico

More Violence South Of The Border

It gets harder to comprehend what lies in store for us all and it’s only getting worse. Over 10,000 people now murdered since 2006. A news clip about the latest outburst in Mexico:

On Thursday, gunmen opened fire and tossed a grenade at a crowded taco stand in the central Mexican city of Uruapan, killing a police officer and a 15-year-old boy, a spokesman for the state prosecutor’s office said n condition of anonymity because his office does not allow him to give his name.

The policeman was shot while eating with a fellow officer, the spokesman said. Before fleeing, the assailants shot two tanks of cooking gas that exploded, burning the teenage taco stand worker to death. Four other people were injured.

Investigators said the attack apparently targeted the two officers.

Also Thursday, armed men barged into a motel room and killed five people in their beds in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, said Victor Valencia de los Santos, public safety secretary for Chihuahua state. A sixth person was wounded.

Two other people were killed during a car chase and shootout between armed men in downtown Juarez, said Enrique Torres, a spokesman for the joint military and federal police operation responsible for security in the city. Both people killed were gunmen.

The human race is doomed.

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