Tears and rage as victims of Mexican drug wars are buried
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Crowding around the bodies in white and grey coffins, parents and friends sobbed as they bade farewell to the 14 people killed at a family birthday party on Friday night in the Mexican city that is the epicentre of the country's drug war.
"This can't be happening. Today, it's them who are killed, and tomorrow, who will be next?" said a sister of one of the victims, who gave only her first name, Miriam.
In Tijuana across the border from San Diego, California, suspected drug gang hitmen shot dead 13 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic on Sunday, a member of the local police force said. And in the northern state of Coahuila, two women and a teenage boy died on Sunday after being caught in crossfire during a shoot-out between unidentified gunmen, police and soldiers, state prosecutors said.
The shooting in Juarez on Friday was the second massacre at a party this month in the city across from El Paso, Texas.
Ciudad Juarez has become one of the world's most violent cities since drug cartels launched a turf war there in early 2008. Almost 7,000 people have been killed in the city since then.
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