| At least 23 people died in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, police and officials said Thursday. The toll included nine people slain during a prayer service. A gang armed with AK-47s sprayed the mass in a drug rehabilitation center with bullets late Wednesday in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, killing eight patients and their minister, police said. At least five people were seriously injured in the shooting. Meanwhile, 14 others were found dead Thursday in separate incidents in Chihuahua state, eight of them in Ciudad Juarez. |