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15 Dead in Tijuana Shootout

Posted Apr 26, 08 7:20 PM CDT in Crime & Courts,  World 

(Newser) – A gunfight between Tijuana drug cartel rivals left 15 dead and eight wounded near the US border today, Reuters reports. The worst violence in Mexico's 3-year drug war, it filled a city road with bodies and took the lives of two top hit men from the Arellano Felix cartel. "Today shows we are facing a terrible war never seen before on the (U.S.-Mexico) border," said Baja California Attorney General Rommel Moreno.

Federal police and thousands of troops are patrolling the city to prevent further violence and guard the wounded. The officers themselves are now likely targets, Tijuana's police chief says. Drug murders claimed 2,500 lives in Mexico last year, and 900 already in 2008. “Another shootout,” said one worker at the site of today's killings. “There are just too many.”

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Map locates areas of major drug cartels in Mexico.   (AP Photo)
Running gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers on the streets of Tijuana Saturday, killing 13 people and wounding nine.   (AP Photo)
Armed police officials walk in a neighborhood in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008, during a police operation.   (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Armed police officers stand guard in front of a home in Tijuana.   (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Guns found in possession of a police officer, allegedly working for the Arellano-Felix drug cartel.   (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
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