Mexicali, December 9.- A woman was murdered in the southeastern part of Tijuana, a city where the number of homicides has exceeded 1,800 victims so far this year, according to data from the Baja California State Guard of Security and Investigation (GESI).
During the early hours of Thursday, in just five hours, the GESI reported the murder of a woman and a man in different locations, in addition to two people injured by firearms.
A woman with signs of violence on various parts of her body and a rope around her neck was found on Boulevard 2000, in the Altiplano neighborhood, according to a 2:45 a.m. report. Four hours later, the body of a man was discovered, tied up and with gunshot wounds, on Mier y Terán Street, in the Mariano Matamoros Sur neighborhood.
At 7:05 a.m., a man was found in critical condition on Revolución Mexicana Street in the Arenales neighborhood, tied up, with his face covered, and with gunshot wounds.
The Tijuana crime rate report indicates that, as of October 30, 1,656 homicides had been committed in this border city; 137 more victims were reported in November, and 19 more cases as of December 4, for a total of 1,802 murders of men and women—an average of five homicides every 24 hours.
