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Mexico officially named as world’s ‘most dangerous country’

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New York: It’s official! Mexico is the most dangerous country in the world — with five of its cities named in a top 10 of deadly global murder capitals.

The dubious honour of most violent urban area in the world, however, went to the Honduran metropolis of San Pedro Sula — where 1,143 of its 719,447 citizens were killed in just 12 months. That works out to 159 people per 100,000 citizens . Forty of the 50 most dangerous cities are in Latin America, including 14 in Brazil and a dozen in Mexico. Two Mexican cities — Monterrey and Veracruz — made the list for the first time in 2011, while Tijuana, Reynosa and Matamoros dropped out of the top 50.

Ciudad Juarez, Acapulco, Chihuahua, Durango and Torreon also featured high on the list of cities with the worst murder rates, according to a recently released report, based on 2011 statistics, by the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice. (PTI)

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