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Jun 17, 2009 11:18 am US/Central
West Texas Girl Killed In Ciudad Juarez
SAN ELIZARIO, Texas (AP) ―
An 11-year-old far West Texas girl was killed in a weekend shooting in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, relatives said this week.
Priscilla Ibarra Alfaro was shot and killed, along with her 14-year-old cousin, Saturday night in a neighborhood in east Juarez, her aunt Maria del Carmen Alfaro told the El Paso Times for Wednesday's edition.
Priscilla, a middle school student in San Elizario, a small town just east of El Paso, was visiting her mother for the weekend when she and her cousin went out for a hamburger, del Carmen told the newspaper. Two other men who aren't related to the family were also killed.
Mexican authorities have said that nearly 70 bullet casings were found around the scene.
Juarez has been plagued by drug cartel violence since last year, when drug gangs in the sprawling city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso started fighting for control of lucrative human- and drug-smuggling routes. Thousands of Mexican army troops and federal police have been deployed to the city where more than 2,300 people have been killed since January 2008.
Across Mexico, more than 10,780 people have been killed across Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against the drug cartels in December 2006.
Priscilla is not the first child with ties to El Paso killed in the drug war. Last year, 12-year-old Alexia Belen Moreno was shot along with two other men on her way home from school. Countless other children across the country have also been caught in the crossfire.
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