Weekend violence leaves 17 dead , shootout at children's party.

by patgarcia | June 24, 2008 at 06:28 am

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Innocent children killed this year, victims of narco-crime wave of executions and shootouts.

48 minors have been trapped and killed in crossfire this year. Antonio Avila has been the most recent victim on Monday night, victim of a hand grenade explosion in Zacatecas. Omar Castañeda Valencia 16, was killed on Sunday during a shootout in his neighborhood Colonia Heroes de la Revolucion in in Parral, Chihuahua.

June 23

62 presumed criminals were arrested at children's party in Tijuana including the music band performing at the place . It was a baptism celebration. The members of the drug cartel were heavily armed.

Detienen 62 presuntos criminales en fiesta infantil en Tijuana.

Mexican soldiers have captured one of the top leaders of the notorious Tijuana drug cartel at a children's party in this northern border city, police say.

Seventeen people were killed in a wave of weekend violence in northern Mexico's Ciudad Juarez, a border city torn by a drug war pitting rival cocaine cartels against each other, police said.

Among the incidents reported by police was a brazen attack that left three men dead when assailants armed with assault rifles fired on a children's party.

Víctimas del crimen
La ola de ejecuciones y enfrentamientos que se registra en el País también ha cobrado la vida de casi medio centenar de infantes.

Menores asesinados en lo que va del año 48