At least Six people, including two children, were detained. murdered According to security forces, an armed attack that may have been linked to gangs took place in front of a cemetery in Guatemala City this Friday.
According to the Municipal Fire Service’s report, the attack occurred in front of the cemetery called La Verbena in western Guatemala city, where four adults and two young children were killed. According to the same source, in addition to the dead, two people injured by bullets were transported to Roosevelt Hospital, one of the two largest hospitals in the country.
Municipal Fire Department spokesman Carlos Hernández told reporters that the vehicle was “a few meters” from the cemetery and that “at least eight people were on board”. First, the Guatemalan National Civilian Police reported that the reason for the attack was: linked to gang rivalry. The alleged perpetrators of the crime got on a motorcycle and attacked the vehicle with a firearm, which was carrying two women and two minor victims, aged 17 and 5 years old.
Guatemala, according to various reports of international organizations, one of the 25 most violent countries on the planet and between 2010 and 2020 alone, it recorded 60,000 homicides based on data from the humanitarian organization Mutual Support Group (GAM). In the first eight months of 2022, the Central American country reported a 10.3% increase in homicides compared to the same period in 2021, according to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif). Data from the government agency shows that Guatemala added 2,861 autopsies for violent deaths between January and August of this year, compared to 2,592 homicides in 2021 over the same period.