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Report: Mexico 2nd Deadliest Country in World in 2016, Behind Syria

HeadlineMay 12, 2017

A new report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies says that Mexico endured the second most conflict deaths of any country last year, with a staggering 23,000 people killed amid the country’s so-called war on drugs. Mexico was second only to Syria, where 50,000 people were killed in 2016 by the ongoing war. The third, fourth and fifth most dangerous countries were Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen.

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