Arrests of Former Justice Officials Sought
Mexican state prosecutors sought to arrest five former justice officials on charges of botching investigations of the killings of hundreds of women in the crime-ridden border city of Ciudad Juarez.
More than 300 women have been strangled, beaten and stabbed to death in Juarez during an 11-year wave of killings that has gone largely unsolved despite outrage in Mexico and abroad.
A spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general told Reuters that the office had requested warrants from the state court for the arrest of five former prosecutors assigned to the investigations.
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