Six shot dead at funeral in Mexico

Mar 12, 2010, 20:52 GMT

Mexico City - Six people were shot dead and six others were wounded while attending a funeral in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, police said Friday.

According to witnesses quoted by Mexican media, the attackers arrived in two vehicles and blocked the street before shooting at those attending the funeral and others nearby.

The funeral was for an 18-year-old man who was killed Tuesday in the neighbourhood of Parajes del Sur, also the area where the service took place.

The man's family had apparently bought a stolen vehicle and began receiving death threats when they filed a complaint about it, reports said.

The six murdered were between the ages of 18-30 years. One man was killed in his car as he was about to leave the service with his wife, who survived, the daily El Diario of Ciudad Juarez reported. Four other men were killed in the funeral parlour and one woman died while being taken to hospital.

Police found 66 bullet cases at the site.

Ciudad Juarez, in the state of Chihuahua and across the border from the US city of El Paso, Texas, is the most violent city in Mexico, reporting more than 2,600 killings in 2009.

Across Mexico, 7,000 people were killed last year in incidents linked to organized crime, mostly related to drug trafficking.

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