Sunday in Juarez

(Juarez, Mexico) While many Americans were enjoying a leisurely Sunday, the border city of Juarez was experiencing an ongoing war.

It all started when a riot broke out Sunday afternoon on the rooftop of the state Cereso prison in south Juárez, leaving two people dead and seven others injured.

Later, two fragmentation grenades, which are military weapons, were thrown at the federal police command center in central Juárez about 7 p.m. Only one exploded against the wall of a nearby building. No one was hurt.

Shortly afterward, a federal policeman was shot dead in north Juárez. Three other police officers were wounded in the attack about 7:20 p.m.

Fifteen minutes later, gunfire erupted between federal police and a group of gunmen in central Juárez across from a motel called Las Fuentes. Federal agents were patrolling the area when they found a stolen vehicle. They called a towing company to remove the car when two other vehicles suddenly drove by and began shooting at them.

Federal police shot back. Gunmen then threw two fragmentation grenades, which exploded and injured two federal policemen and a taco stand owner.

Just a thought, if I were living in El Paso, mere blocks away from the war, I would be heavily armed and thinking about moving. The Rio Grande is not nearly wide enough to keep the violence on the Mexican side of the border.