According to city officials, the 2,000th homicide was recorded Late Wednesday, when authorities uncovered a clandestine grave with at least eleven bodies near Tijuana's border with Playas de Rosarito.
With just a couple of days left of the year, the state of Baja California has registered nearly 2,500 killings, making it the second deadliest state inIt's a recent record everyone saw coming and no one was able to stop. And it has scraped scars into the psyche of the residents of the border city.
“These are fights between cartels, everyone is fighting to control the area and this is why we have had so many murders,” Ernesto, a resident of Tijuana, told NBC7's sister station Telemundo 20 in an interview.According to city officials, the 2,000th homicide was recorded Late Wednesday, when authorities uncovered a clandestine grave with at least eleven bodies near Tijuana's border with Playas de Rosarito.
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