Eight people were killed Thursday (August 11th) in Ciudad Juárez, a major city in Mexico on the border with the United States, in a series of violent events, authorities and witnesses reported.
Two people were killed during a riot in the prison of this city on the edge of the Rio Bravo, which marks the border with the United States, said the office of the prosecutor of the State of Chihuahua.
Violence present in several states of the country
Four people were also injured in that mutiny attributed by local media, like the two subsequent attacks, to the Sinaloa cartel of former drug lord Joaquín "
Chapo
" Guzmán, who is serving a life sentence in the United States. United.
Two women then died in the attack on a grocery store, which also left one injured.
The store and two other premises were set on fire.
Finally, in the evening, armed men killed four employees of a local radio station who were carrying out promotional activities in front of a pizzeria and were identified by a colleague who came to the scene, noted an AFP collaborator on the spot.
“
I deeply regret the loss of life in this atrocious event against Ciudad Juárez
,” Chihuahua Governor Maru Campos said on Twitter, indicating that federal and state authorities had deployed an operation in the city of 1, 5 million inhabitants to restore order.
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Some neighborhoods in Ciudad Juárez were deserted on Thursday and universities suspended classes on Friday while the business community demanded strong measures from the government against organized crime.
These events occurred two days after an outbreak of violence in the states of Jalisco (West) and Guanajuato (Center), attributed by the government to the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation (CJNG), one of the most powerful in the country. .