Soldiers stood at attention at the military base in Morelia, Michoacan, earlier this month. Authorities have arrested 76,765 suspected drug traffickers since December 2006.(Eliana Aponte/Reuters) 17 Dead, Including Prosecutor, In Mexico Border Attacks -- Yahoo News/AFP
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) – Suspected drug violence left 17 people dead in north Mexico in the past 24 hours, including a federal prosecutor and one decapitated victim, officials said Wednesday.
The deaths, which came amid a military crackdown on the nation's powerful drug traffickers, all occurred in Chihuahua state, including 11 in the country's most violent city of Ciudad Juarez.
Unidentified attackers shot dead federal prosecutor Jose Ibarra Limon overnight Tuesday in the city across from El Paso, Texas, police investigators said. Ibarra Limon had been investigating the 2008 murder of a local journalist.
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