Drug hitmen kill 17 at party in Mexico
20:41, 19 July 2010
MEXICO CITY. July 19. KAZINFORM Suspected drug hitmen stormed a private party and killed 17 people in the northern Mexican city of Torreon on Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks in Mexico's drug war; Kazinform refers to China Daily.
Gunmen in five SUVs drove up to the party in a walled patio and garden on the outskirts of the city in Coahuila state across from Texas, smashed down the door and opened fire with automatic rifles on party-goers at about 1 am/0500 GMT, Coahuila's prosecutor's office said.
Mexico's attorney general's office immediately took over the investigation into the killings, Mexican daily Reforma said.
The early morning attack comes days after a drug gang detonated a car bomb in Ciudad Juarez late on Thursday, killing four people in the first attack of its kind in Mexico's drug war.
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