MEXICO OPENED 2,599 HOMICIDE INVESTIGATIONS IN JULY

Mexico opened 2,599 homicide investigations in July — the most ever recorded in a month

Mexico continues to grow more violent, logging more homicide cases in July than in any month on record.

Prosecutors opened 2,599 homicide investigations — an average of 84 a day — last month, Mexico’s national public security agency said Tuesday. In some of those cases, there were multiple victims, although authorities did not provide a total.

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