Hitmen kill 25 in bloodiest day on Mexico-US border
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - The murders of 25 people by suspected drug hitmen on the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday was the bloodiest day in almost three years in an area gripped by an escalating drug war, officials said on Friday.
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