The Mexican city councilor shot during the basketball game

A local Mexican government official was shot dead while attending an amateur basketball game after an armed man broke into a sports hall on Saturday, authorities said.

Families and children gathered at the Sports Center in the violent state of Guanajuato, where Ignacio Alejandro Roaro, a secretary of the City Council in Apaseo El Grande.

The City Council “strongly condemns the treacherous, despicable and cowardly attack that happened this Saturday, in which our colleague and friend, the secretary of the City Council, Ignacio Alejandro Roaro, lost his life,” he said in a statement.

Local media said an armed man had been arrested.

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’s lawn wars.

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 and represents 10.5 percent of cases throughout the country, according to official figures.

The bloodshed has continued this year.

In June, 11 people were shot dead And another 20 injured in a shooting aimed at a party in the neighborhood in Irapuato, about 50 miles west Apaseo el Grande. A 17 -year -old was among those killed, along with eight adult men and two women, said the office of the state prosecutor of Guanajuato, promising that the crime would not be unpunished.

A month earlier, 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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