Mexico drug war: raid leaves 25 dead

Soldiers shoot dead suspected drug cartel members near the US border

  • The body of an alleged drug dealer covered by a sheet after being shot to death in front of his house, September 2009, Tijuana, Mexico
    Mexico drug war update: The body of an alleged drug dealer - 2010 World Press Photo

  • 3 September 2009: Bloodstained footsteps are seen at the entrance of a drug treatment centre in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
    Mexico drug war update: Bloodstained footsteps are seen at the entrance of a drug treatment centre

  • 3 September 2010: Soldiers stand guard after a gunfight with drug gang members at a ranch near Monterrey, Mexico
    Mexico drug war: Soldiers stand guard after a gunfight with drug gang members

  • 3 September 2010: Soldiers stand next to weapons seized at a warehouse after a gunfight with drug gang members
    Mexico drug war: Soldiers stand next to weapons seized at a warehouse after a gunfight

  • 3 September 2010: Isabel Carcamo, the daughter of Miguel Carcamo, faints during her father's funeral in El Guante, Honduras. Carcamo was one of the 21 Honduran immigrants murdered and identified so far at Tamaulipas, Mexico, where a series of firefights with drug gang members had occurred
    Mexico drug war: Isabel Carcamo faints during her father's funeral in El Guante

  • 3 September 2010: The coffin of murdered immigrant Miguel Carcamo during his funeral in El Guante, Honduras
    Mexico drug war: A girl walks next to the coffin of murdered immigrant Miguel Carcamo

  • 2 September 2010: A police mark is placed next to the handcuffed bodies of two dead men on the side of the Mexico-Cuernavaca highway
    Mexico drug war update: Bodies of two dead men on the side of the Mexico-Cuernavaca highway

  • 2 September 2010: Forensic experts inspect the coffins containing the remains of 16 Hondurans who were killed in Mexico while trying to reach the US border, before returning the bodies to family members in Tegucigalpa
    Mexico drug war: Forensic experts inspect the coffins containing the remains of 16 Honduran

  • 1 September 2010: Mexico City police wearing face masks guard a truck arriving with the bodies of some of the 72 migrants who were killed in northern Mexico while trying to reach the US border
    Mexico drug war: Mexico City police wearing face-masks guard a truck

  • 1 September 2010: A Mexican police officer stands guard near a truck containing 56 bodies, outside a mortuary in Mexico City
    Mexico drug war: A Mexican police officer stands guard outside a mortuary in Mexico City

  • 1 September 2010: A priest blesses the coffins of 16 out of 21 murdered Honduran illegal immigrants, after an official ceremony in Tegucigalpa
    Mexico drug war: Priest blesses coffins of murdered Honduran illegal immigrants

  • 5 May 2010: A policeman walks before bodies astride a bullet-riddled car at a gas station in the famous resort of Acapulco in the state of Guerrero, Mexico
    Mexico drug war update: Bodies astride a bullet-riddled car n the Guerrero state, Mexico

  • 20 March 2010: A man lays dead in the street after being shot in Juarez, Mexico. The border city has been racked by violent, drug-related crime recently and has quickly become one of the most dangerous cities in the world
    Mexico drug war update: A man lays dead in the street after being shot in Juarez, Mexico

  • 28 April 2010: Police officers place markers next to the bodies of several men killed by drug traffickers in the bar in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
    Mexico drug war update: Men killed by drug traffickers in the bar in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

  • 12 April 2010: A man lies dead on a street after being murdered by unknown gunmen in Ciudad Juárez
    Mexico drug war update: Man lies dead on a street after being murdered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

  • 11 April 2010: The body of Claudia Mora sits on a chair where she was murdered at a race circuit on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez
    Mexico drug war update: The body of Claudia Mora sits on a chair, Mexico
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