Gunmen kill 7 at park in besieged Mexican border city

Gunmen kill 7 at park in besieged Mexican border city: "Gunmen spraying automatic weapons fire killed seven people at a park that had been built as an anti-violence measure in the besieged border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said Monday.
Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Carlos Gonzalez said the assailants arrived at the park in the Francisco I. Madero neighbourhood and opened fire Sunday afternoon. Four people, including a 12-year-old girl, were hospitalized in critical condition, and one later died of his wounds.
Investigators found 180 bullet casings from the sort of assault weapons typically used by drug gangs, Gonzalez said, though they had not yet identified the perpetrators or a motive.
The park was inaugurated four months ago as part of a government program called Todos Somos Juarez, or We're All Juarez, to reduce violence and improve life for the city's 1.3 million residents.
Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, is Mexico's most violent city, with more than 3,000 killed last year as the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels for control of lucrative trafficking routes into the United States.
More than 34,600 people have been killed nationwide since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown against drug traffickers in December 2006."