Wednesday's murder toll hits 20 in violent border city

Yesterday we told you about the discovery of the bodies of eight men shot to death outside a bar in Juarez, Mexico.

Well, that wasn't even the half of it.

Wednesday's death toll in the border city across from El Paso was actually at least 20.  The toll also included four teens gunned down inside a car in front of a convenience store and three people fatally shot in a Cadillac outside an elementary school.  Five other homicides were reported Wednesday night, the El Paso Times reported.

It was one of the deadliest days so far this year in Juarez, which is caught up in a more than 2-year-old drug cartel war.

-- Lance Murray

Comments

[Bob]

Mexico has a higher death rate than Iraq! Isn't it about time that the U.S. woke up to see that this will spill across our border as soon as the criminals see what they can get away with.

[Tim Kamp]

Yes it will spill across your border. Just as it already has here in AZ. We just had yet another Sheriff shot by these violent drug smugglers here in central AZ between Phoenix and Tucson. This is the reason we recently passed such strict illegal immigration laws. Our AZ border problem has become deadly and the Federal Government has done nothing to help us. We are forced to do it ourselves. We can no longer ignore this problem. The violence is growing and looks like we here in AZ are going to have to protect ourselves. The good people of Texas will too. Trust me, you can't count on the National Government. They will not help.