Six men at a family party were killed in the gang-plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, according to media reports Monday.
The dead were young people ages 20 to 25 killed in the house of the party Saturday, announced Alejandro Pariente, a spokesman for the regional attorney general's office.
At least 1,000 people have been killed this year in Ciudad Juarez, with many of the deaths connected to drug gangs at war.
In Tijuana, another border city across the border from San Diego, seven reputed members of the Arellano Felix drug cartel, including a city police officer, were captured.
The drug cartel members holed up in a Tijuana neighborhood Saturday and opened fire on the justice officials. A total of 21 assault rifles, 4,000 rounds of ammunitionand body armor were seized by the justice officials during the crossfire. Since Sept. 26, 91 people have been killed throughout Tijuana in a wave of gangland homicides.
Earlier, a "financier" for the Gulf Cartel, another Mexico's main drug trafficking syndicate, was captured Wednesday in the joint operation "Operation Project Reckoning" of U.S. and Mexico.
The justice officials seized the cartel's financial officer Wenceslao Alvarez and 7.6 million dollars in assets belonging to him in Atlanta, Georgia.
Source:Xinhua
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