04 October 2011

Two U.S. Citizens Killed in Juarez

Two U.S. Citizens Killed in Juarez

Two U.S. citizens are reportedly among four people who were killed when gunmen attacked an SUV in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.

The El Paso Times reports that an official with the U.S. Consulate in Juarez on Monday identified the U.S. citizens killed over the weekend as 19-year-old Pablo Noe Williams and his mother, 35-year-old Rosa Williams. They are listed as being from Kansas.

A spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office told the newspaper the young man was from El Paso.

The others killed were identified as 24-year-old Alberto Nieto Nieto, and 21-year-old Alma Yesenia Flores.

The Chihuahua state attorney general's office said the SUV with Texas plates the four were in Friday evening in Juarez was hit with gunshots from assault rifles.

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