Gunmen kill 6 in bar in Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez

Gunmen kill 6 in bar in Mexico border city

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A gang of gunmen killed six men and wounded another in a bar early Wednesday in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, and four other men were found dead on a sidewalk in another part of town.

The bloodshed raised to 30 the number of homicides in Ciudad Juarez in just four days.

A spokesman for prosecutors in northern Chihuahua state, Arturo Sandoval, said there was no immediate information on a motive for the early morning attack at the Amadeus bar. But the methods bore the hallmarks of attacks by drug cartels.

Prosecutors later said the four men found dead on a sidewalk elsewhere in the city appeared to have been lined up against a wall and shot to death.

About 1,900 people have died in drug-related killings in Ciudad Juarez so far in 2009. The city, which lies across the border from El Paso, Texas, has one of the highest homicide rates in the world.