Eight people were executed and abandoned inside a house under construction in Guanajuato, local authorities said Sunday.
The crime occurred around 10:00 p.m. on Saturday in irapuato municipality, where seven men and a woman were shot and killed inside the house in the Santa Maria neighborhood, according to a report from the municipal security secretariat.
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According to testimony gathered by authorities, a group of armed men traveling in a red van entered the scene where the gunshots were later heard.
Neighbors and onlookers gathered around the house, whose walls have exposed bricks and has no doors or windows, while police and elements of the National Guard closed the vehicular passage.
Police reported hours later the discovery, several kilometers from the crime scene, of an abandoned red van “in which the alleged assailants were apparently traveling,” according to the security secretariat report.
State Government Secretary Libia Garcia condemned the multiple killing via Twitter and said she is working in coordination with the mayor, police and prosecutors in her clarification.
The massacre in Irapuato comes a day after another attack on a brewery in the municipality of Moroleón, where four men were killed and six people were injured.
Guanajuato has become one of Mexico’s most violent states because of the dispute between the Santa Rosa de Lima and Jalisco New Generation cartels.
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Gangs fight to control drug trafficking and stolen fuel, among other crimes.
Since December 2006, when the government launched a controversial military anti-drug operation, Mexico has recorded more than 300 thousand murders, according to official figures that do not specify how many crimes respond to the fight against mafias.
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