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Drug battles filling up cemetery in Juarez
03:14 PM CDT on Monday, October 12, 2009
EL PASO, Texas—Death is no stranger in Juarez especially in poor neighborhoods where victim and villain often live side by side.
In fact, the path to the city cemetery is well-traveled these days. With hundreds of murders in the border city, mourners gather daily to bury loved ones.
Teenagers in the area say that young men have become the latest victims of the violence. Those youngsters are often recruited by drug cartels to fight a turf battle.
There are so many killings that the morgue is filling up quickly. Every week, city workers take the bodies of those people who are unidentified or unclaimed to a certain spot at the cemetery where they are buried in unmarked graves.
The cemetery caretaker says new plots now extend to the edge of the property.
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