At least five dead across Mexico in drug killings

The wake was being held at a private home for an 18-year-old man who had been shot to death in his car two days before.

Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for prosecutors in northern Chihuahua state, where Ciudad Juarez is located, said the bodies of the shooting victims lay in the street outside the home, after they apparently tried to flee the gunmen.

There was no immediate information on the condition of the wounded, who were taken to local hospitals for treatment.

The city has been plagued by drug gang violence in which gunmen often seek to finish off wounded rivals or associates of previous victims. Gunmen have attacked homes where they believe rivals might be gathering.

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