Gunners kill 10 people, including children, at home in Mexico City, plagued by cartel turf war
The gunman killed 10 people, including children, who were troubled by cartel-related violence in a house in a central Mexican city, authorities said Wednesday.
Several others were injured in Tuesday night’s shooting irapuato In Guanajuato, the city said in a statement.
“According to preliminary data, 10 people were killed and several guns and projectiles were injured,” the local civil security office said in a statement on social media.
According to Reuters, local media reported that the shooting occurred during a religious celebration.
President Claudia Sheinbaum told her morning press conference that the children were among the victims of the “tragic” attack, adding that authorities had launched an investigation.
“This is a shocking homicide,” Reuters said.
Guanajuato Mexico’s deadliest state According to official homicide statistics, it is due to gang turf war.
Since 2006, criminal violence has been linked to drug trafficking, most of which have been linked to drug trafficking, claiming about 480,000 lives in Mexico and 120,000 people are missing.
The conflict between Guanajuato’s most violence and the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and Jalisco’s new generation cartels is one of the most powerful cartels in Latin American countries. The Jalisco cartel is several designated by the Trump administration as a foreign terrorist organization.
According to official data, there were more than 3,000 murders in Guanajuato last year, the most in any Mexican state.
The bleeding continued this year.
Last month, investigators said they 17 bodies were found In an abandoned house in Guanajuato. Just a few days before this, officials said that the gunman opened fire. Killed seven peopleincluding children in the same state, officials found two banners and mentioned information to the Santa Rosa Delhi Horse Gang.
Five women and three men in February Shoot to death On the streets of Guanajuato. A month before that, security forces clashed with gunmen in the state and left 10 suspected criminals died Three policemen were injured.
