The gunmen kill 10 people, including children, in the house in the Mexican city full of cartel grass wars

The gunmen killed 10 people, including children in an attack on a house in a central Mexico City full of violence related to the posters, authorities said on Wednesday.

Several others were injured in the shooting on Tuesday night in Irapuato In the state of Guanajuato, the municipal government said in a statement.

“According to preliminary data, 10 people lost their lives and several more were injured by firearms projectiles,” said the local civil security office in a statement on social networks.

The shooting occurred while local residents celebrated a religious festival, Mexican media reported.

The children were among the victims of the “deplorable” attack, President Claudia Sheinbaum said to journalists at her morning press conference, added that the authorities had launched an investigation.

She described the attack as a “confrontation” without giving details about the circumstances or victims.

A video shared online shows the moment when shots exploded when people danced and socialized, causing panic.

“It is a terrible multiple homicide,” said Sheinbaum, according to the Reuters news agency.

According to Mexican media, the shooting occurred while local residents celebrated a religious festival.

Guanajuato is a prosperous industrial and home center of several popular tourist destinations, but it is also The most fatal state in Mexico Due to gang grass wars, according to official homicide statistics.

Criminal violence, mostly linked to drug trafficking, has gained around 480,000 lives in Mexico since 2006 and has left more than 120,000 missing people.

Much of the violence in Guanajuato is linked to the conflict between the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the Jalisco New Generation posterone of the most powerful of the Latin American nation. The Jalisco poster is one of several that has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration.

Guanajuato registered more than 3,000 murders last year, the majority of any Mexican State, according to official figures.

The bloodshed has continued this year.

Last month, the researchers said they found 17 bodies in an abandoned house in Guanajuato. Only a few days before, the authorities said the gunmen opened fire and killed seven peopleincluding children, in the same state, and the officers found two banners with messages that alluded to the Santa Rosa de Lima gang.

In February, five women and three men were Dead thrown On the street in Guanajuato. The previous month, security forces faced armed men in the state, leaving 10 alleged dead criminals and three injured police officers.

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