translated from Spanish: Morelia is located at 39 percent above the national average in homicides

Morelia, Michoacán-Morelia city closed with red in terms of homicide numbers, remaining 39 per cent above the national average, to register in the last in 2018, 23 murders and reaching a total of 183 in the whole year, according to data from the Organization “Criminal traffic light”.
According to the data of the organization citizen, throughout the last year, 183 homicides, placing it as the municipality that more deaths recorded, above cities as Apatzingán with 105 cases, Uruapan 151, Zamora 90 were recorded in the Michoacán capital incidents and Buenavista 45 records, all of them considered red flags on safety.
Even Zamora which is a municipality where the incidence in homicides has permeated by the presence of organized crime groups, recorded a 6 percent less than the average national number of murders, since December 10 cases were presented in one less than the average .
For his part, Morelia closed the last three years with 48 murders reported.
Meanwhile, in the national numbers, Michoacán closed – according to criminal-traffic light – 2018 in 11th place, with thousand 338 homicide records, generating a value of 28.7 cases, taking into account the 4 million 658 thousand 159 inhabitants.
In the month of December the michoacana entity had been 110 murders, their fifth worst month. In October there were 145 being the most violent month, followed by September with 135, with 121 July and August with 127.

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