translated from Spanish: Child survives attack that killed 5 people in NL

five people were killed and a child wounded turned out Sunday afternoon after an attack against the van gunned Chevrolet Blazer that were transported in the municipality of Doctor González , New Leon, reported the local prosecutor’s office.
“Reportedly five people lifeless”, three men and two women, “one minor injured” shoulder, says a report from the Prosecutor’s office, which does not specify if the minor wounds were by gunshot.
The AFP news agency reported that all the victims belong to the same family.
The aggressors were the leak, and authorities hypothesize that they traveling in a truck that was abandoned eight kilometers from the site of the shooting and has plates of the U.S. State of Texas.
According to reports from the daily El Norte, the Prosecutor’s Office of Nuevo Leon reported that the two women killed were identified as Juliana Santos, 49, and Janeth Guadalupe Velázquez, between 25 and 30, both originating in the municipality of Cerralvo.
Between January and August 2018, Nuevo Leon reported 776 homicides, of which 282 were committed with a firearm, according to data from the National Secretariat of public security.
Last August almost 3 thousand people were violently killed in Mexico. Thus, there are already more than 22 thousand victims of homicide and murder of women in the country so far in the year.
2018 is the year with the highest number of killings which have official registration in Mexico. On average, this year are murdered in the country almost four people every hour, or what is the same, more than 90 men and women who lose their lives in a way violent every day.
In 2017, the State committed thousand 99 homicides, 405 of which were committed with a firearm.
With information from AFP and the North (subscription required).

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