Drug gang clash with army kills 21 in Mexico

A total of 25 murders Today , It's a one day record !
There has not been much said about the fact That the cartels were having talks a few weeks ago , they had a little luncheon at a local restaurant "somewhere" and talked about playing a little nicer !!! Look's like it did not do much good !

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican soldiers fought gun battles with drug cartel hitmen near the U.S. border on Tuesday after gangsters abducted local police in violence that killed 21 people, including an army sergeant.

Soldiers pursued the hitmen through freezing desert in the northern state of Chihuahua after they dragged nine people, including some police, out of houses and shot six of them at a ranch in the early hours of Tuesday, the army said.

Heavily armed soldiers burst into the ranch, near the Texan border, and shot dead several of the hitmen, later chasing another group by helicopter before killing them too, army spokesman Enrique Torres said from the area.

"The bodies were strewn across the desert outside the nearby town of Villa Ahumada," said Torres.

It was one of the bloodiest scenes this year in a spiraling drug war that killed more than 5,700 people across Mexico in 2008.

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El Paso Times
Twenty-one people were killed early Tuesday between Villa Ahumada and Samalayuca following the reported kidnappings of nine people and shootouts between Mexican soldiers and the kidnappers, officials with the Joint Chihuahua Operation said.

Police also reported the deaths of four others whose bodies were found Tuesday in the Juárez area, for a total of 25 people killed, the most to date in less than 24 hours.