AP: 9 Killed In 9 Hours In Ciudad Juarez

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) – Police found nine bodies in nine hours in Ciudad Juarez.

They included a beheaded man and four people shot dead in a car.

A Chihuahua state attorney general’s spokesman says the victims died in five incidents Wednesday morning in the city across from El Paso, Texas.

He says the bullet-riddled bodies of three men and one woman, all unidentified, were discovered in a car shortly after midnight. About an hour later, police found the body of a man who was shot repeatedly outside a bar.

The toll rose to six just after sunrise with the discovery of a gunshot victim lying by the side of a road. Later in the morning, police found two bodies, one beheaded, wrapped in a blanket. The ninth victim turned up in a car.

Ciudad Juarez is Mexico’s most violent city, with more than 1,600 murders this year.

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