MORE CARNAGE: SHOOTINGS AT CARWASH, EATERY KILL 10 MORE

10 Slain At Rehab Center

Five killed at a carwash. Five in a restaurant. Ten at a drug
rehabilitation center. And a Mexican federal agent shot outside his
headquarters.

The staggering bloodshed that has gripped Juarez for more than a year
was relentless during the past two days even as the city celebrated
16 de Septiembre.

Juarez police said there were no problems during the traditional
grito, or cry for independence, gathering attended by 50,000 people
on Tuesday night at the old municipal presidency building.

There were also no major problems Wednesday during the traditional
parade featuring hundreds of marching police and soldiers.

But the displays of Mexican patriotism did little to curb the rampant
violence believed to be linked to warring drug cartels.

More than 20 people died Tuesday, and the killing continued
Wednesday, including a federal agent fatally shot in the afternoon
outside the headquarters of the Mexico attorney general's office on
Avenida Abraham Lincoln near the Bridge of the Americas.

The single deadliest episode was a shooting at a drug rehab center
that killed 10 people late Tuesday night.

A group of gunmen with assault rifles went into the Anexo de Vida
center, where they killed nine men and a woman in various parts of
the center, said Enrique Torres, spokesman for Joint Operation
Chihuahua, the federal anti-crime deployment.

"For those sick with drug addiction and alcoholism," stated a painted
sign on an outside wall of the modest center at 564 Plan de Ayala in
southeast Juarez.

Among those killed, said the Chihuahua state attorney general's
office, were the center's director, Jose Iram Ortiz Facio, and its
doctor, Dr. Luis Orozco Lopez.

The other victims were Eduardo Villalobos Jaquez, alias El Zeox;
Rafael Trejo Estrada; Hector Ivan Amaro Villa, alias El Grande;
Graciela Isabel Ochoa Archuleta; Juan Carlos Macias Velazquez;
Gerardo Garcia; Francisco Arreola Rodriguez; and Francisco Javier
Gutierrez Hernandez.

A man and a woman wounded in the assault were hospitalized.

The massacre was the second this month at a drug rehab in Juarez. On
Sept. 2, gunmen killed 18 men at the Casa El Aliviane drug rehab center.

Law enforcement agents have said that some drug rehab centers in
Juarez are fronts for drug sales or are associated with gangs.

The Juarez mayor's office said in a news release Wednesday that the
latest case was due to the war between drug cartels that started in
January 2008.

The drug rehab massacre was one of three multiple shootings since Tuesday.

About 1 a.m. Wednesday, five men were killed inside the Coco Bongo
restaurant at Avenida Hermanos Escobar and Costa Rica street.

Chihuahua state police said the victims were Jose Ignacio Macias, 50;
Juan Jose Guardiola Barbosa, 21; Jose Luis Olivas Apodaca, 46; and
two men who had not been identified.

Tuesday evening, five other men were killed in the Spider carwash
near the border in east Juarez. The dead were Rodolfo Soriano, who is
in his 40s; Adan Gonzalez Alvarez, 32; Rogelio Alarcon Soriano, 20;
Julio Cesar Hernandez Hernandez, 20; and Jaime Hernandez Hernandez, 22.

So far this year, an estimated 1,650 murders have occurred in Juarez,
surpassing the 1,607 homicides in all of last year.

Other multiple shootings

About 1 a.m. Wednesday, five men were killed in the Coco Bongo
restaurant on Avenida Hermanos Escobar and Costa Rica street.

Chihuahua state police said the victims were Jose Ignacio Macias, 50;
Juan Jose Guardiola Barbosa, 21; Jose Luis Olivas Apodaca, 46; and
two men who had not been identified. Tuesday evening, five other men
were killed in the Spider carwash near the border in east Juarez.

The dead were Rodolfo Soriano, who is in his 40s; Adan Gonzalez
Alvarez, 32; Rogelio Alarcon Soriano, 20; Julio Cesar Hernandez
Hernandez, 20; and Jaime Hernandez Hernandez, 22.