An off-duty US Air Force seargeant was among six people shot to death 4 November at a striptease bar in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez, the country’s most violent. Witnesses say masked gunmen entered the bar, targeted and shot the six victims several times, then left in the ensuing panic. A US military spokesman said it appears that drugs were being sold at the bar.

Three dozen US citizens have been murdered in the first six months of the year in Mexico, mostly along the border. More than 2,000 people have died in Ciudad Juarez since the beginning of the year as drug gangs fight for control of the lucrative drugs trade to the US. Houston & Texas News, New York Times, Reuters

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News story, GenevaLunch, 5 November 2009.

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