5 slain in another bar attack in Juárez
by Aileen B. Flores \ El Paso Times
Posted: 04/03/2011 12:29:38 AM MDT


A group of men threw fire bombs into a bar in Juárez and killed five people Friday night, officials said.

That attack occurred after 10 people were shot and killed at another bar on Thursday.

Chihuahua police officials on Saturday said the bodies of three men and two women were found by investigators at Las Barritas bar, near Oscar Flores Avenue and Francisco I. Madero Street in the Presa neighborhood.

Officials said the attack took place about 10:30 p.m. Friday when a group of gunmen walked into the bar and started the fire.

Officials did not say how many people were in the bar at the time. The bodies of the victims were found throughout the bar, officials said.

Only one of the five victims had been identified by police as of Saturday night. Officials said he was Esteban de la Riva, 42.

Officials said that investigators found four .223-caliber shell casings at the scene and that five vehicles were seized by police outside the bar.

Thursday night, a group of gunmen burst into El Castillo bar in the Zaragoza area and killed nine men and one woman. Another woman was wounded in the attack, officials said.

The victims were found inside the bar, riddled with bullets, officials said.

A total of 16 people were killed Friday in Juárez, including the victims of Las Barritas bar. By Saturday afternoon, four people had been killed.

Among the Saturday victims was Luis Manuel Ramos Váz quez, 20, who was killed in an auto shop in the Constitución neighborhood.

Officials said gunmen entered the Taller de Frenos and Suspensiones Juárez on Carlos Amaya and Manuel Goytia streets and attacked a group of men inside the business. Investigators found 78 AK-47 shell casings at the scene

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Ramos Vázquez died at the scene, while two other men, one 25 and the other 62, were taken to a local hospital

There were 183 homicides in March and about 600 so far this year in the Mexican border city. About 8,000 people have died in Juárez since the war between the Juárez and the Sinaloa cartels began in 2008.