8 killed, businesses burned near Mexico’s border with U.S. in violence blamed partly on El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico — The Mexican border metropolis of Juarez noticed a rash of violence on Thursday that left businesses burned and no less than eight individuals useless, together with an area radio presenter, authorities and witnesses mentioned. In the primary incident, two inmates died and 4 others have been wounded in a riot at a jail, in keeping with a press release from the prosecutor for the state of Chihuahua, which incorporates Ciudad Juarez.

Local media attributed the riot to the Sinaloa cartel, whose former chief, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, is at present serving a life sentence in the United States.

Later in the day, two girls have been killed and one other individual was wounded in an assault at a Juarez meals store. The store and two different premises have been additionally set on hearth.

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That night, gunmen shot 4 radio station workers to loss of life as they have been participating in a promotional occasion exterior a pizzeria.

Employees who got here to the scene recognized the useless because the presenter, a supervisor and two different staff on the station, in keeping with a witness.

“I deeply regret the loss of human lives in this atrocity against Ciudad Juarez,” Chihuahua Governor Maru Campos mentioned on Twitter, including that state and federal authorities had been deployed to revive order in the town of 1.5 million, which sits simply throughout the border from El Paso, Texas.

The killings in Juarez got here simply two days after violence equally flared in the states of Jalisco and Guanajuato, in the east and middle of the nation, respectively.

Following Thursday’s killings, a number of elements of Juarez have been abandoned, with some universities canceling courses on Friday and the native enterprise chamber calling on the federal government to do extra to fight organized crime.