Nine headless bodies found in Mexican border town

More Craziness south of the border!

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Nine decapitated bodies were discovered on Sunday in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, a hot spot in an increasingly gruesome war between drug cartels.

The bodies, along with their removed heads, had been left in a vacant lot beside a factory, witnesses and police told reporters.

Mexico is facing spiraling drug violence, especially along its border with the United States. Cities like Tijuana, south of San Diego, are seeing horrendous levels of crime, with bodies set on fire, cut up and dumped in acid and strung over highways.

Beheadings, kidnappings and daylight shootings have become common as vicious drug cartels fight over smuggling routes into the United States.

President Felipe Calderon has sent some 40,000 troops and federal police across Mexico to try to stop the killings. But despite major drug seizures and arrests, the killings continue.

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Juárez violence leaves 10 slain on Fridayel paso times
The violence in Juárez continued to rage with at least 10 homicides occurring Friday.

Among the slayings were a triple homicide in the morning, a man gunned down outside a pool hall in the afternoon and a killing at a funeral home in the evening.

Shortly before 6 a.m., two unidentified women and a man were shot to death in a PT Cruiser on Rusia street, Chihuahua state police said.

At 2:30 p.m., Rodolfo Humberto Martha Jimenez, 27, was shot 13 times in the parking lot of the Pocket's billiards on Avenida de las Torres, police said.

There have been more than 1,300 homicides in the Juárez area so far this year, including nearly 30 since Monday.

In a brazen attack before dawn Thursday, gunmen fired at a Juárez hotel housing federal police, possibly in retaliation for the seizure Wednesday of two tons of marijuana. No injuries were reported.

Last weekend, Nov. 14-16, 22 people, including an El Pasoan, were slain.

On Nov. 15, Ricardo Miranda, 27, who had an ID card stating he was a resident of El Paso, was shot multiple times on a street in the Bellavista area in west Juárez, police said.

8 are slain in Juárez restaurantel paso times A mob-style shooting Friday night in an upscale seafood restaurant in Juárez left eight people dead in the latest string of violent encounters in the troubled city.

The total number of victims was unconfirmed, but reports were that eight people had been fatally shot inside the Mariscos Del Mar restaurant on Gomez Morin Boulevard near Jupiter street in the eastern part of Juárez.

Channel 56-XHJUB in Juárez reported that a group of men with AK-47s entered the restaurant, approached men sitting at a table and fired more than 100 rounds. TV reports showed many ambulances at the scene guarded by the Mexican military and police in ski masks.

Besides the restaurant shooting, at least three other homicides occurred Friday, including a 14-year-old girl found strangled.

The restaurant shooting was the second multiple killing in Juárez this week. Seven men were shot execution-style Tuesday next to a school soccer field.

More than 40 homicides have occurred since Monday and more than 1,350 killings so far this year, due in part to a war between drug cartels.