18 people have been killed in separate shootings throughout Mexico's Ciudad Juarez

In one incident, a family of seven was slaughtered while they were outside their home in the southeastern part of the city, Chihuahua State Attorney General's Office spokesman Carlos Gonzalez said. Local newspaper El Diario de Juarez reported that five of the bodies were found inside a car and another two bodies were found lying in the street. In another gruesome incident, an unidentified dismembered body was found wrapped in a blanket inside a bag, Gonzalez said. Figures provided by the Chihuahua Attorney General's office and corroborated by Gonzalez showed that 352 people were killed in the month of October 2010, making it the bloodiest month in Juarez since Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched his war on organized crime four years ago. Local estimates put Juarez's death toll at more than 2,600 so far in 2010. In 2009, at least 2,575 people were killed in the city.