CIUDAD JUAREZ (Mexico) - UNIDENTIFIED gunmen opened fire on a pickup truck in northern Mexico, killing 10 people including a 13-year-old boy on Tuesday, authorities said.
The people in the truck were an extended family, according to prosecutors in the northern state of Chihuahua where the latest killings took place - one of at least three deadly incidents the same day in the same state.
The state borders the United States and is among Mexico's most violent.
Drug traffickers with the Juarez cartel, under alleged kingpin Vicente Carrillo, and the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquin 'Chapo' Guzman have been waging a local war that left 2,400 people dead in 2008.
Drug-related deaths more than doubled last year to more than 5,300, amid a government clampdown, including the deployment of 36,000 troops across the country, launched two years ago. -- AFP
