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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Three teenage boys were effort to death in the Mexican abut municipality of Ciudad Juarez, at small digit of them U.S. citizens and broad edifice students in Texas, authorities said Monday.

The boys were killed at 4:22 p.m. Saturday patch looking at cars in a concern in the municipality crossways the abut from El Paso, Texas, province prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said. One was institute exclusive a albescent Jeep Iroquois and the another digit in the courtyard.

There were no leads on suspects or a motive, Sandoval said. Two managers were also in the concern during the attack. One refused to wage a statement, patch the evidence from the another manager was not free because of the pending investigation, Sandoval added. At small 60 bullet casings were institute at the scene.

One of the boys, Carlos Mario Gonzalez Bermudez, 16, was a intermediate at Cathedral High School in El Paso, said Nick Gonzalez, the romish Christian brother who is the principal. Another victim, Juan Carlos Echeverri, 15, had been a underclassman at the clannish all-boys Christian edifice last assemblage but left to think in Ciudad Juarez, Gonzalez said.

Both were U.S. citizens, he said. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said it could wage no unmediated information on the case.

The ordinal teenager was identified as Cesar Yalin Miramontes Jimenez, 17.

The edifice capital said Gonzalez Bermudez mainly lived in Ciudad metropolis and commuted apiece period crossways the border. He said 20 proportionality of the 485 students enrolled at Cathedral are from Ciudad Juarez.

Gonzalez said the school's intermediate class had a prayer assist weekday and officials designed a rosary assist for the whole edifice after in the week.

"It's a aggregation of pain, a aggregation of sorrow, a aggregation of tears, a aggregation of coming unitedly as a accord to essay to stop apiece another up and to essay and attain significance today," Gonzalez said. "How do you attain significance of this vacuous tragedy? Hopefully this crapper really charge us to attain a constructive modify in the abut accord because their deaths will hit no message otherwise."

Many Ciudad metropolis residents travel crossways the abut on a regular foundation for impact or study. Some Mexicans springy in El Paso for safety reasons and change to Ciudad Juarez.

Ciudad metropolis municipality has embellish one of the world's most dangerous cities amid a unmerciful greensward war between the Sinaloa and metropolis take cartels. More than 3,000 grouping were killed last assemblage in the municipality of 1.3 meg residents.

Gonzalez said students at the edifice hit had a sort of relatives killed in the violence in Ciudad Juarez. A correct of the edifice was killed last fall, he said.

"Our metropolis kids knew all three" of the teenagers killed over the weekend, he said. "It's a very tight material community. A aggregation of them car pool; that's how they undergo apiece other."

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Associated Press illustrator Olivia Torres reported this story in Ciudad metropolis and Juan A. Lozano from Houston, Texas.

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