Seven killed in Mexico shooting

(Vatican Radio) A gunman burst into a bar in Juarez- bordering Texas, and opened fire with an AK47 assault rifle. He shot dead four men, and also three women who were waitresses. The bar is located just three blocks away from the headquarters of the city's beleaguered Police Force.

Investigators say this killing spree could be linked to extortion which organized crime demands on the dot for protection.

Juarez remains at the epicentre of Mexico's savage unremitting Drug War which has claimed more than 70,000 lives with almost 30,000 missing. Juarez is a feuding battleground between a cartel which names itself after the City, and the Sinaloa drug cartel which is led by Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, who's the World's most wanted drug trafficker.

Unlike the last Administration, this one publishes the Drug War death toll.

Since President Enrique Peña Nieto was inaugurated in December, more than 3,000 people have been murdered by the cartels.

James Blears reports: