17 dead in one day
Mexico’s state shocks with murder rate
In Mexico's state of Guanajuato, 17 people were killed in several multiple murders on Saturday.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen In terms of the number of murders per year, it is the Mexican region with the highest murder rate - 2,990 murders have been counted here since the beginning of the year. One of the reasons for this is the fierce battle between two rival drug cartels.
Three men were shot dead at a funeral in the colonial town of San Miguel, of all places, and five other people were injured, the public prosecutor's office announced on Sunday. In addition, three men and a woman were killed in an apartment in the city of Irapuato when armed men broke into the house, according to police sources.
Two men and a woman were killed by shots fired by unknown gunmen as they came out of a supermarket in the town of Juventino Rosas. In addition to these three multiple murders, seven people were reported killed on Saturday in the municipalities of Celaya, Salvatierra, Valle de Santiago, León and Guanajuato, the state capital of the same name.
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