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Suspected drug hitmen burst into a high school birthday party and killed 14 people in Ciudad Juarez, the latest massacre in one of the world's deadliest cities.Gunmen jumped out of sport utility vehicles and fired at the students, who were celebrating the birthday of a classmate, in a house in the city across the border from El Paso, Texas. Bodies lay on the street outside and pools of blood collected by nearby parked cars. Inside the house, the walls were stained with blood and marked with bullet holes. The men drove up in SUVs, they were well-armed. They went into the house and shot at everyone, you could hear the gunfire all around, a neighbour at the scene told. Over the past two years, hitmen have attacked parties in Chihuahua state, searching for rivals, and police have reported that some teenagers in Ciudad Juarez have been involved in kidnapping others. Gonzalez said the dead included three adults and 11 minors. Fourteen others were wounded, two critically. All the victims were between 15 and 20 years old, the army said.
