translated from Spanish: They killed 6 people in Valle de Santiago; 4 were minor

overnight on Tuesday six people were killed in an armed attack in the municipality of Valle de Santiago, Guanajuato; among the dead were four children, according to the report by the authorities.
The Guanajuato State Attorney General reported that the attack was carried out by several armed people who fired from two vans against the victims when they were in public.
Authorities detailed that murdered children were 8, 10, 15 and 17 years.
The attack also left several people injured, that they were taken to local hospitals. So far there has been people detained.
For 2018 in Mexico were 33 thousand 341 homicides, the highest rate of which have record since 1997.
Guanajuato, one of the States with higher exports in the manufacturing sector, through a wave of violence to be a territory disputed by cartels new generation Jalisco, Sinaloa and Los Zetas, according to reports from the authorities.
Intentional homicides in this entity increased from 14.83 per 100 thousand inhabitants, in 2015, to 39,77 in 2018, according to the Mexican federal Government.
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Original source in Spanish