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Gunmen open fire in city bar killing 11 people

Juarez Gunmen opened fire in a northern city bar, killing 11 people, and the body of a newspaper editor was found on the side of a highway in two separate criminal attacks, police said on Friday.

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  • Published: 23:29 October 11, 2008
  • Gulf News

Ciudad: Juarez Gunmen opened fire in a northern city bar, killing 11 people, and the body of a newspaper editor was found on the side of a highway in two separate criminal attacks, police said on Friday.

The body of 40-year-old Miguel Angel Villagomez, owner and editor of La Noticia newspaper in the western state of Michoacan, was found late on Thursday in the neighbouring state of Guerrero, police said. By midnight on Thursday, unidentified assailants walked into the Rio Rosas bar in the northern city of Chihuahua and began shooting indiscriminately, said Eduardo Esparza, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Chihuahua.

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