EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Police blame a new spate of violence on a fight among criminal organizations for control of crystal meth sales in Juarez, Mexico.

At least nine men and women were murdered between Thursday night and early Friday morning, Juarez officials said on Friday. The violence comes two weeks after the killings of 23 people in an 18-hour period that occurred in places where authorities alleged crystal meth was sold.

“What happened last night is regrettable,” said Juarez Municipal Public Safety Director Cesar Omar Muñoz. “We are analyzing what is happening. Twenty days ago, (the attacks) were in the morning, now it happened after 10 p.m. […] The issue of ‘crystal’ was a factor in the homicides last night.”

Munoz said the municipal police has stepped up its patrols a

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