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Two balaclava-clad women guarding cartel burglars as they thieved motorbikes and hauled them on the back of a getaway truck in Zacatecas, Mexico, show a new emerging crime phenomenon

Goalie Bruno Fernandes ordered a gang to abduct actress and model Eliza Samudio, 25, who was later strangled to death before her body was butchered and fed to a pack of ravenous hounds in Brazil

The 14-year-old boy, dubbed "Little Chapo" after the drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is accused of opening fire on a family in the Mexico City suburb of Chimalhuacan

El Salvador has had a problem with gang-related violence for decades, but the South American country's new President Nayib Bukele has promised a crackdown on crime, and has already rounded up 63,000 gangsters and thrown most in jail

The mum and her three-year-old daughter had previously left their home after being caught in gang wars. Now after starting a new life in Handsworth, the family may face the same fate after a mice infestation has plagued their home

The four US citizens had crossed into Mexico on Friday in a white minivan, but soon came under fire before a gang of suspected cartel gunmen dragged them into a pick up and drove them away from the scene in Matamoros

El Salvador has had a problem with gang-related violence for decades, but the South American country's new President Nayib Bukele has promised a crackdown on crime, and has already rounded up 63,000 gangsters and thrown most in jail

Suspected gang members Noah David Beard, 25, and Angel "Nanu" Uriarte, 35, were dragged into custody after six people were murdered in a brutal massacre in January, including a teen mother and her six-month-old baby boy

El Salvador has built a new mega-prison designed to house around 40,000 inmates. The new jail comes with 850 guards, steel walls and 19 watchtowers as the country tries to tackle its gang problem

Nero Drinks Company has been named by Spanish police as a suspected front to launder money for infamous Dubai-based crime gang the Kinahans, whose bosses currently have a $5m bounty on their heads

Daisy O'Doherty says she was woken in her Barking flat by a police officer pointing a gun at her and described herself as a 'target' of the Hellbanianz gang who try to intimidate locals

Armed officers stormed a residential street and arrested a 22-year-old man after a drive-by shooting at a funeral in Euston saw four women and two children injured

Violent criminals from Albania now run the cocaine market in most parts of the UK, but so far have not managed to get a foothold in one particular city due to local gangs "protecting" the streets

Four people were jailed for life for the killing of friends Charlene Ellis, 18, and Letisha Shakespeare, 17, as they left a house party in January 2003 - but their families believe more never faced justice