The Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua descended into chaos on Thursday as drug traffickers carried out sweeping attacks on convenience stores, gas stations and buses. Security forces outside one of the convenience stores that was attacked on Thursday, in Ciudad Juárez. The armed gang also threw Molotov cocktails and fired at a gas station located at the intersection of San Antonio and Gómez Morín street. In Ciudad Juárez, a city of a million and a half inhabitants, almost five people a day have been killed in August alone. The violence in Ciudad Juárez comes just a few days after drug traffickers terrorized the states of Jalisco and Guanajuato.

Source: The Local August 12, 2022 18:07 UTC