Gunmen kill 10 people, including children, at house in Mexican city plagued by cartel turf wars

Armed men killed 10 people, including children in an attack on a house in a central Mexican city, afflicted by violence linked to the cartel, the authorities announced on Wednesday.

Several others were injured in the shooting Tuesday evening Irrapuato In the state of Guanajuato, the municipal government said in a statement.

“According to preliminary data, 10 people lost their lives and several others were injured by firearms projectiles,” the local civil security office said Social Network Declaration.

The local media reported that the shooting had taken place during a religious celebration, according to the reuters news agency.

Children were one of the victims of the “deplorable attack,” President Claudia Sheinbaum told his morning press conference, adding that the authorities had launched an investigation.

“It’s a terrible homicide,” said Sheinbaum, according to Reuters.

Guanajuato is a prosperous industrial center which houses several popular tourist destinations, but it is also Most deadly state in Mexico Due to Gang Turf Wars, according to official statistics on homicides.

Criminal violence, the majority of drug trafficking, has made a living of around 480,000 lives in Mexico since 2006 and left more than 120,000 disappeared.

A large part of the violence in Guanajuato is linked to the conflict between the gang of Santa Rosa of Lima and the Cartel Jalisco New GenerationOne of the most powerful in the Latin American nation. The Jalisco cartel is one of the many who have been designated As a foreign terrorist organization of the Trump administration.

Guanajuato recorded more than 3,000 murders last year, most of all Mexican states, according to official figures.

The bloodshed continued this year.

Last month, the investigators said they found 17 bodies In an abandoned house in Guanajuato. A few days before that, officials said that armed men had opened fire and killed seven peopleIncluding children, in the same state, and the officers found two banners with messages referring to the gang of Santa Rosa in Lima.

In February, five women and three men were fell In the street in Guanajuato. The previous month, the security forces clashed with armed men in the state, leaving 10 presumed criminals dead and three injured police officers.