10
Jul
08

More kids caught in Mexico drug-war crossfire (AP)

An unidentified relative of Alexia Belem Guerrero touches her coffin during the burial ceremony at a cemetery in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico June 12, 2008. Moreno, who was 12, was shot in the head while riding in a vehicle as she was returning from school, apparently caught in the crossfire during a gun battle between drug smugglers. She is part of an alarming trend of children being caught in the increasingly bloody battle for control of lucrative drug smuggling routes. (AP Photo/Diario de Juarez, Luis Torres)AP - Twelve-year-old Alexia Belen Moreno was afraid living in her father’s house in Ciudad Juarez, where drug cartels are fighting a bloody war. She begged to move in with her mother just across the border in El Paso, Texas. Her parents agreed — but asked her to stay a few more weeks to finish school.



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