Forensic workers bury unclaimed bodies in a mass grave at San Rafael cemetery in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, October 8, 2018. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
DW: Mexico sets new murder record with more than 33,000 killed in 2018
Mexico saw more murders in 2018 than any other year since nationwide records began some two decades ago, according to the country's Interior Ministry. Mexico might soon get a national guard tasked with combating crime.
With drug-related crimes and gang violence rife across Mexico, investigators opened 33,341 murder probes in 2018, setting a new record, according to the latest data published by the nation's authorities. Men make up the overwhelming majority of the victims, with 861 women losing their lives last year.
The number of murders logged in 2018 is also the biggest since the national records began in 1997.
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