Sunday, November 15, 2009 MEXICO CITY Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.The carnage was even high for Ciudad Juarez, which has had 1,986 homicides through mid-October this year -- averaging seven a day in the city of 1.5 million people. The metropolis across the border from El Paso, Texas, is considered Mexico's deadliest city.State prosecutor's spokesman Arturo Sandoval said the child was traveling with his father in a pickup truck when gunmen opened fire Friday, killing them both.Mr. Sandoval said three women were shot to death in two separate incidents. A university professor was killed in a residential area.Mr. Sandoval said that nine other men were killed in six separate incidents.Last week, business groups in Ciudad Juarez called for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highes...
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