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Six Americans killed in Mexico's drug war city

1 hr 24 mins ago CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Gunmen have killed six U.S. citizens in separate attacks since Saturday in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, the U.S. consulate said on Thursday, as Mexico struggles to halt surging murders.

University of Texas students Manuel Acosta and Eder Diaz, who studied at the El Paso campus just across the border from Ciudad Juarez, became the latest victims when they were gunned down as they drove through the city on Tuesday.

The slayings followed the deaths of four Americans, including a woman who died of multiple gunshot wounds inside a tortilla shop on Saturday.

Two other U.S. citizens died on Saturday in a hail of gunshots aimed at their car.

"Police said shooters fired 50 rounds, ... peppering the black BMW with bullets," the consulate said in a statement.

On Sunday a U.S. citizen was killed along with two Mexican men when gunmen opened fire on a group standing outside a house. It was not clear why the Americans were targeted.

Such killings are becoming more common even though most American tourists have stayed away from Ciudad Juarez since drug violence surged in January 2008. Since then, more than 7,000 people have died in and around this manufacturing city engulfed in criminal anarchy.

"A lot of the kids tell us that they don't go over (to Ciudad Juarez) anymore. But many folks along the border have families, grandmas," said Mary Ellen Hernandez, director of the Rio Grande Safe Communities Coalition, an El Paso-based nonprofit that promotes safety among college-age youths.

At least 37 U.S. citizens have died violently in Ciudad Juarez since January, compared to 39 in 2008 and 2009 combined, according to U.S. government data.

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According to the latest TV interviews, both students lived in Cd. Juarez and were going home after evening classes in El Paso. Many of the others mentioned were also dual citizens, who are Mexicans whenever in Mexico. That doesn't make the situation any less horrible, but it does tell us which way the US media leans. No 'tourists' were involved and it appears that the advice to avoid the area in the dark still applies.

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