LAHT/ A new study from a consulting firm asserts that nearly 19,000 homicides of all types occurred in Mexico in 2009, making the country No. 6 in the world in homicides. Grupo Multisistemas de Seguridad Industrial listed South Africa with the highest homicide rate in the world, with 126 per 100,000 people, followed by Colombia, with 114.5, Guatemala, with 44, Thailand, with 41.5, Paraguay, with 19.4, and Mexico, with 12 per 100,000 people. The study said that of the 18,900 homicides in Mexico last year, some 63% were murders, 11.1% were multiple murders, 8.5% were killings of police officers and 7.6% were involuntary homicides, with smaller percentages involving killings of the elderly and infants.
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