Arrests of Former Justice Officials Sought
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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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