Christmas occasion focused as 16 killed in Mexico’s Guanajuato state

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MEXICO CITY — Gunmen attacked a Christmas occasion early Sunday, killing a dozen folks in Salvatierra, Mexico, within the north-central state of Guanajuato, prosecutors mentioned.

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State prosecutors additionally reported that 4 different folks died in a taking pictures in Salamanca, however didn’t describe the circumstances of that assault.

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Native media mentioned the victims in Salvatierra had been leaving an occasion corridor following a Christmas occasion often known as a “posada” after they had been gunned down.

Guanajuato has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Jalisco cartel and native gangs backed by the Sinaloa cartel. The state has lengthy had the very best variety of homicides in Mexico.

In the meantime, within the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum, three males had been shot to demise and 4 folks had been wounded in an assault at a bar Sunday, authorities mentioned.

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Quintana Roo state prosecutors mentioned a preliminary investigation indicated the taking pictures “might have been a dispute involving retail drug gross sales and for that motive the protection of the general public and that of our guests was by no means in danger.”

However shootouts between native drug gangs in Tulum have previously killed vacationers who had been caught within the crossfire.

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In 2021 in Tulum, two vacationers — one a California journey blogger born in India and the opposite German — had been killed whereas consuming at a restaurant. They apparently had been caught within the crossfire of a gunfight between rival drug sellers.

Early this 12 months, the U.S. State Division issued a journey alert warning travellers to “train elevated situational consciousness,” particularly after darkish, at Mexico’s Caribbean seaside resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum.

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