Masked attackers dressed as police opened fire in a bar in Mexico, killing 11, out of a total of 24 deaths reported in northern Chihuahua state on Friday.
Elsewhere, police found the body of a journalist on a garbage dump in southern Guerrero state.
“Last night [Thursday], a group of armed people entered the Rio Rosas bar in Chihuahua city and shot indiscriminately on the patrons,” an official from the state attorney’s office said Friday.
Eleven died and four others were seriously wounded in the attack.
“The attackers arrived in several vans, in fake federal uniforms, wearing balaclavas,” the official said.
A total of 24 people died in separate attacks overnight in Chihuahua State, Mexico’s most violent, including four police, authorities said.
Meanwhile, police found the body of the director of the Michoacan News, Miguel Angel Villa Gomez, on a garbage dump in Guerrero.
Gomez left work in western Michoacan State, bordering Guerrero, late on Thursday and never made it home, his colleagues said.
“The body had three gunshot wounds, two in the stomach and one in the head,” a police statement said.
Suspected drug-related attacks have claimed almost 3,500 lives so far this year across Mexico.
A government crackdown on drug-related violence, initiated by Mexican President Felipe Calderon almost two years ago and including the deployment of 36,000 troops, has showed no sign of stopping the killings.
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