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The Wire
The Houston Chronicle reports today on two stories dealing with violence along the Texas/Mexico border.
The first story deals with the recent deaths of three teenage boys shot over the weekend in Ciudad Juarez:
Three teenage boys were shot to death in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, at least two of them U.S. citizens and high school students in Texas, authorities said Monday.
The boys were killed at 4:22 p.m. Saturday while looking at cars in a dealership in the city across the border from El Paso, Texas, Chihuahua prosecutors’ spokesman Arturo Sandoval said. One was found inside a white Jeep Cherokee and the other two in the courtyard.
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The second story covers two explosions by grenades in Metamoros, Mex.:
At least two grenades were thrown Monday evening along a busy boulevard in Matamoros that lies close to two international bridges.
Sources confirmed that two explosions went off at approximately 7:30 p.m. along Alvaro Obregon Boulevard near the intersection with Calle Sexta.
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