Mexico deploys 1,500 extra soldiers to
border city
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Mexico
has deployed 1,500 more troops to Ciudad Juarez following a surge in
homicides in the border city related to the drug trade.
Joint
security operation spokesman Enrique Torres Valadez says the extra troops
will plan operations Sunday and begin patrolling the city Monday.
A total
of 2,500 troops arrived in Ciudad Juarez by land and air Saturday night, but
1,000 of them are relieving soldiers rotating out of the city for a break,
Torres said.
Killings
in the city across the border from El Paso, Texas, had declined to about one
per day after the army sent more than 5,000 troops there in March to patrol
the streets.
But
officials say killings have risen again to an average of between eight and
nine per day.
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