Gunmen kill 10, including child, in northern Mexico
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A member of the local police stands guard on January 31, 2012 in Ciudad Juarez. Gunmen armed with assault rifles opened fire on a group of people after an amateur baseball game in northern Mexico, killing 10 including a six-year-old girl, authorities said Monday. (AFP/File)
Gunmen armed with assault rifles opened fire on a group of people after an amateur baseball game in northern Mexico, killing 10 including a six-year-old girl, authorities said Monday.
Two carloads of men carrying AK-47 rifles emerged near the field late Sunday on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, which borders the US state of Texas, and opened fire.
The dead included eight men, a woman and the child, said Carlos Gonzalez, spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutor's office.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Authorities have yet to arrest anybody or determine the motive, Gonzalez told AFP.
The shooting took place in Loma Blanca, a town outside Ciudad Juarez where federal police killed a Sinaloa drug cartel capo, Gabino Salas Valenciano, in August.
Authorities said earlier this month that they had detained the alleged leader of the Juarez cartel, Alberto Carrillo Fuentes.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Ciudad Juarez was once considered the world's murder capital, with 3,000 people killed in 2010 alone amid a turf war between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels, but the homicide rate has been falling in the past three years.