At least 10 suspects
entered the Colorado Bar wearing what looked like police uniforms and
opened fire on the crowd inside the bar, according to Carlos Gonzalez, a
spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office. Eleven
people died at the scene, and the other four died en route to the
hospital.
The victims ranged in age
between 25 and 72. Among them was Hector Javier Aguirre Salinas, the
owner of a news website and a respected journalist. A second journalist,
Francisco Javier Moya -- who in years past had served as the news
director for a radio station in Ciudad Juarez -- also was killed.
"The crime of our
partners and the rest of those killed in the attack, cannot go
unpunished," Roberto Delgado, president of the Association of
Journalists in Juarez, said in a statement on the killings.
Prosecutors said they
collected at least 30 shell casings from a variety of weapons, including
several bullet casings from an AK-47.
Northern Mexico has been
ravaged by battles among rival drug cartels, police and government
troops for the past several years. More than 47,000 people have been
killed since the Mexican government launched a crackdown on drug
traffickers in December 2006, according to government statistics.
Source: CNN News
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