23 people killed along Mexico-US border
Authorities confirmed twenty-three people were slain in a matter of 24 hours in Chihuahua state overwhelmed by drug violence on the US border.
In the late Friday and Saturday 13 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez, across from the US city of El Paso, Texas, Chihuahua state prosecutors said.
According to officials, one of the incidents in which the murders took place was engaged in a car theft, and a couple was killed in a violent attack at a shopping mall.
10 people were also murdered in other locations around Chihuahua state, prosecutors added.
Ciudad Juarez is at the heart of a wave of drug attacks which have left some 28,000 dead since 2006, according to official figures.
Most killings in Ciudad Juarez are linked to clashes between the Juarez and Sinaloa gangs over control of lucrative drug trafficking routes into the United States.
Based on records, with a population of 1.3 million, Ciudad Juarez had more than 2,660 murders in 2009 and 1,850 so far this year.
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