At least 10 people died, many injuredIt was in a pool located in the municipality of Tarimoro in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato this Wednesday, authorities reported.
The incidents occurred around 9:00 PM (02:00 GMT on Thursday) at a workplace located on Independencia Street in Tarimoro, a small municipality of 35,000 inhabitants in the south of the state of Guanajuato. Subjects with firearms came to the billiards and A group of at least 10 people was fired upon. 9 of them died at the scene, and 1 died on the way while being taken to the hospital..
Cardboards containing the abbreviation of Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel have been found in the area, which has plagued the state in recent years and controls the transfer of drugs and fuel, as well as extortion.
Agents from the National Guard, State Security Forces and municipal police arrived on the scene to monitor the area, but no arrests have been made so far.
This massacre took place just after two more people were killed last Saturday. The first was recorded in the municipality of Silao, where four people were killed inside a house, and the second in the municipality of Romita, where six people were shot dead. According to official figures, 39 people were killed in Guanajuato between Friday, September 16 and Sunday, September 18.
Last Tuesday, Mexican Government Minister of Public Safety and Citizen Protection Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez reported that despite the downward trend in intentional homicides in Guanajuato, it was the state with the highest number of cases in the country with 2,115 cases. victims between January and August of this year. Reflects today’s events heavy wave in mexicoUnder Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s tenure, there were 34,690 murder victims in 2019 and 34,554 in 2020, recording 33,308 murders in 2021 after the two most violent years in its history.