Eight people have been gunned down in separate drug-related shootouts in the Mexican city of Juarez as the country scrambles to snuff out drug trafficking, PressTV reported.
Five men were killed at a tire repair shop in Juarez on Sunday and three others were slain in a house on the outskirts of the border city in a separate incident, El Paso Times reported.
Meanwhile, the Mexican army found the bodies of five men in a graveyard south of Palomas, Chihuahua.
At least 11 people were also killed on Friday after suspected members of rival drug gangs opened fire on each other at an annual religious festival in western Mexico.
Earlier this month, the Mexican army found 20 bodies buried in 11 graves in the town of Palomas.
The upsurge of drug-related violence comes despite efforts by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who launched a war on drug cartels in the country in 2006.
Drug-related violence has so far claimed some 31,000 lives in spite of Calderon's deployment of about 50,000 troops across the country.
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