At least 30 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexican cities of Monterrey and Guadalajara and the northern state of Chihuahua, police say.
At least 11 people were killed in separate murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's deadliest city, across from the US city of El Paso between late Friday and Saturday, authorities said.
Gunmen shot dead five men together in an additional group killing on a highway between Chihuahua city, the state capital, and Ciudad Juarez, AFP reported.
Separately, around 4:00 a.m. (1000 GMT) a special unit of soldiers and police known as the Immediate Reaction Group stopped two suspicious vehicles in a suburb of the industrial city of Monterrey, the Secretariat of Defense said. The car occupants responded by pulling out weapons and opening fire.
"Seven alleged aggressors lost their lives" in the shootout, the secretariat said in a statement, adding that the attackers "struck the side of a vehicle, resulting in a civilian death.”
Three women and three men were also killed in the attack and more than 20 were wounded, police said.
Monterrey, a prosperous city and home to the local operations of several multinational corporations, is at the intersection of several highways -- often used as drug smuggling routes -- heading north into the United States.
Two rival drug organizations, the Gulf cartel and their former allies, the Zetas, are battling for control of the area.
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Gunmen shot dead five men together in an additional group killing on a highway between Chihuahua city, the state capital, and Ciudad Juarez, AFP reported.
Separately, around 4:00 a.m. (1000 GMT) a special unit of soldiers and police known as the Immediate Reaction Group stopped two suspicious vehicles in a suburb of the industrial city of Monterrey, the Secretariat of Defense said. The car occupants responded by pulling out weapons and opening fire.
"Seven alleged aggressors lost their lives" in the shootout, the secretariat said in a statement, adding that the attackers "struck the side of a vehicle, resulting in a civilian death.”
Three women and three men were also killed in the attack and more than 20 were wounded, police said.
Monterrey, a prosperous city and home to the local operations of several multinational corporations, is at the intersection of several highways -- often used as drug smuggling routes -- heading north into the United States.
Two rival drug organizations, the Gulf cartel and their former allies, the Zetas, are battling for control of the area.
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