there were six people He was killed this Monday in the municipality of Salamanca, located in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, in the country’s capital, local authorities reported. With this, Villagrán closes the day of violence that started with the murder of the mayor’s sonneighboring municipality of Salamanca.
Multiple murders were recorded in the neighborhood of Barrón, located near the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz primary school, 19 kilometers from the municipal seat, where six people, four men and two women, were killed. According to early versions, the victims were at a neighborhood meeting when the attack occurred.
Hours ago, in Villagrán, Florencio Lara González, son of Juan Lara Mendoza, the mayor of that municipality, was killed while driving. It was in the car his wife, Mildred Elizabeth Alvarado, He died in the hospital minutes later. “This is an unfortunate fact. We must ask the prosecution to clarify this situation and arrest the culprits,” Guanajuato governor Diego Sinhue Rodríguez told the media in an interview.
Two weeks ago, there was another massacre in a bar in the Celaya municipality, an hour away from Salamanca, in which 11 people lost their lives.
According to data from the National Public Safety System Executive Secretariat, 993 people were killed in Guanajuato between January and April this year, of which 227 died in April. With that, the state with the second highest number of cases in Mexico in the first four months of 2022 is below only its neighboring state, Michoacán.