A firearm attack inside a bar municipality of Celaya, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato Eight people were killed and five injured., as reported by the authorities. “The events were recorded after a report was received that a firearm had exploded in a secret bar,” the municipal government said in a statement.
The massacre occurred in the district of San José el Nuevo, located 13 kilometers from the municipal seat. According to the first versions, armed subjects in vehicles and motorcycles They came to the mentioned bar and shot at those present. Eight people died at the scene, while five others were injured and taken to hospital. Long gun casings were found at the scene, according to authorities.
The personnel of the Minister of National Defense (Sedena), the National Guard and the State Security Forces (FSPE) conducted an operation to find those responsible.
Guanajuato, located in central Mexico, is the state with the highest concentration of intentional murders since 2018. 1,566 people were killed in the first half of the year alone. Also, just before dawn on Wednesday, journalist Ernesto Méndez Pérez was assassinated in a bar in San Luis de la Paz, another municipality of Guanajuato. reflects reality Violence in MexicoUnder Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s tenure, there were 34,690 murder victims in 2019 and 34,554 in 2020, recording 33,315 murders in 2021 after the two most violent years in its history.
Source: Informacion
