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Two youths shot down in violent northern Mexico border city


ASSOCIATED PRESS

9:31 p.m. January 23, 2006

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – Two unknown assailants opened fire on a group of youths in the center of this violent border city Monday night, killing two instantly and leaving one severely wounded.
The wounded 27-year-old man drove nearly three kilometers (two miles) to a hospital, police investigator Pablo Madrid said. Doctors said his condition was extremely grave.

The attack took place at 9:15 p.m. local time (0315 GMT). No one had been arrested as of Monday night.

With the latest shootings, Nuevo Laredo, a city of 300,000 across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, has recorded 19 homicides since the beginning of the year.

Violence in Nuevo Laredo has spiked since early last year. U.S. and Mexican authorities blame two powerful drug cartels battling for control of the area's key smuggling corridors into the United States.