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Summary At least 11 people were killed in drug violence across northern Mexico, authorities said.
In Ciudad Juarez, the city across the border from El Paso, Texas, known as Mexicos crime capital, a 45-year-old nurse and her 25-year-old son were found shot to death inside of a van.The local prosecutor said seven people were killed in attacks allegedly perpetrated by gang members linked to drug trafficking in different parts of Chihuahua state as it grapples with a confrontation between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels.In Nuevo Leon, a state that also borders the United States, two men were killed and another two wounded in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a vehicle in Apodaca near Monterrey, the state capital and the third-largest city in Mexico.The country is experiencing a violent end to the holiday season this year, after Mexican troops made a grisly Christmas discovery when they found 13 bodies in a truck in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.Investigators say the murders are linked to Fridays discovery of 10 bodies in the town of Tampico Alto, in neighboring Veracruz state, and attacks by gunmen last week on three buses that left 16 people dead.More than 45,000 people have died in a wave of violence since the government launched a nationwide crackdown on the cartels five years ago. Civilians are often caught in the crossfire between feuding drug cartels as well as clashes between security forces and drug traffickers.
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