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8 die in Chihuahua state
2013-06-09
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

A total of six unidentified individuals were found Friday in a series of graves in Rosales municipality in Chihuahua, according to Mexican news reports.

A Notimex wire dispatch posted on the online edition of El Diario de Coahuila said that the victims were found in four pits inside ejido Rosales, according to a spokesman for the Chihuahua state Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE) or attorney general, Carlos Hernandez.

The bodies were found on Thursday and excavation continued into the next day. The totals were five men and one woman found.

Two other men were killed and several others were wounded in four separate incidents in Chihuahua state.

• Five unidentified individuals were shot and wounded Friday night in a shooting at a bar in Chihuahua city, according to a news dispatch posted on the online edition of La Polaka. The attack took place at the Bar Las Animas near the intersection of calles Morelos and Allende in Centro Historic. A number of armed suspects entered the bar and started shooting. Seven each 9mm spent cartridge casings were found at the scene.


• An unidentified man in his 20s was found stabbed to death in Ciudad Juarez Friday, according to a news account which appeared in the online edition of El Diario de Juarez. The victim was found near then intersection of calles Pedro Rosales de Leon and Buenavista in Villahermosa colony.


• A 34 year old man was shot to death in Ciudad Juarez Friday night. The victim, unofficially identified as Omar Alfredo Fereseres, was aboard a pickup truck at around 2020 hrs near the corner of calles Isla Aruba and Division del Norte in Guadalajara Izquierda colony when armed suspects aboard a Jeep Cherokee SUV fired on him, killing him.


• An unidentified man was shot and wounded in a carjacking in Ciudad Juarez Saturday afternoon. The incident took place in Satelite colony near the corner of calles Venus and Saturno in front of a school. The car that was stolen was for sale, according to reports.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com

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