Sunday, 17. August 2008
Topic: DRUGS - on August 17, 2008 at 2:53:00 PM CEST
Mexico's drug killings 'soaring'
Drug-related murders in Mexico have already exceeded last year's total despite the deployment of 30,000 troops to tackle the issue, media reports say.
The Mexican newspaper, El Universal, said 2,682 people across Mexico had been killed since the start of this year, compared to 2,673 in 2007.
The northern state of Chihuahua on the US border was by far the worst hit.
President Felipe Calderon pledged to curb drug-related killings when he came to power in December 2006.
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