Six members of two families are brutally murdered by Mexican cartel in 'most violent state' as gang massacres become regular occurrence
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Six members of two families are brutally murdered by Mexican cartel in 'most violent state' as gang massacres become regular occurrence

Daily Mail  

Six members of two families were massacred at a construction site in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato. A married couple and their 13-year-old grandson were among six people who were massacred at a construction site in Yuriria, Mexico on Tuesday Residents stand behind a perimeter set up by law enforcement in the central Mexico municipality of Yuriria, where six members of two families were murdered at a construction site Tuesday. One of the three construction workers, all related, were among six people who were executed at a construction site in Yuriria, Mexico on Tuesday A 28-year-old man was shot dead along his two family members while they were working at a construction site in Yuriria, a city in the central Mexico state of Guanajuato, on Tuesday. Also gunned down was a couple and their 13-year-old grandson The Guanajuato State Attorney General's Office is investigating the murder of six members of two families that took place at a construction site on Tuesday in the city of Yuriria.

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Six dead and 10 wounded in Mexico bar shooting
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Six dead and 10 wounded in Mexico bar shooting

Deccan Chronicle  

At least six people were killed and 10 wounded early Sunday in an armed attack at a bar in the city of Villahermosa, in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco, local authorities said. "Armed persons" entered the bar "looking for a specific person" and the shots hit those nearby, state deputy prosecutor Gilberto Melquiades said at a press conference, adding …

Mexico mass shooting: Gunmen kill 10 people at bar in Queretaro, horrific CCTV footage surfaces – India TV
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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Mexico mass shooting: Gunmen kill 10 people at bar in Queretaro, horrific CCTV footage surfaces – India TV

India TV News  

Mexico City: Gunmen killed 10 people in a bar in the central Mexican state of Queretaro late, authorities said on Saturday, adding to a wave of violent crime that is gripping several areas of the country. The incident took place in a bar in the downtown area of the state's capital, also known as Queretaro, where four gunmen entered, killing …

Brutal gang attack on a small Haitian town killed at least 70 people, U.N. says
3 months ago

Brutal gang attack on a small Haitian town killed at least 70 people, U.N. says

LA Times  

Kenyan police officers stationed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as part of an effort to control violent gangs stand at attention as Kenyan President William Ruto, right, arrives at their base for a recent visit. The tally of victims killed in this week’s brutal attack on a small town in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members has risen to at least …

Gunmen burst into a Mexican drug rehab center and kill 4 men and wound 2 others
3 months, 1 week ago

Gunmen burst into a Mexican drug rehab center and kill 4 men and wound 2 others

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Assailants shot to death four men and wounded two others in an attack at a Mexican drug rehabilitation center, officials said Wednesday. Mexico’s privately run drug rehabilitation centers are often abusive, clandestine, unregulated and underfunded. Mexican drug gangs have killed suspected street-level dealers from rival gangs sheltering at such facilities in the past. In 2020, gunmen shot …

At least 30 killed as factions of the Sinaloa Cartel clash in northern Mexico
3 months, 3 weeks ago

At least 30 killed as factions of the Sinaloa Cartel clash in northern Mexico

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — At least 30 people have been killed in the past two weeks in Mexico’s northern state of Sinaloa as two factions of the powerful Sinaloa cartel continue to clash, authorities said Tuesday. Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval said that two military personnel were among those killed in the fighting that started Sept. 9, despite the presence of …

Sinaloa cartel infighting rises in northern Mexico following the detention of 2 drug lords in July
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Sinaloa cartel infighting rises in northern Mexico following the detention of 2 drug lords in July

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — The murders of about a dozen people in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa appear to be linked to infighting in the dominant drug smuggling cartel there, confirming fears of repercussions from the July 25 detention of two top cartel leaders. Last month, Joaquín Guzmán López, a capo from one faction of the Sinaloa cartel — the …

Family of 6, including 3 children, killed in south Mexico, the latest in a string of family killings
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Family of 6, including 3 children, killed in south Mexico, the latest in a string of family killings

Associated Press  

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico — A family of six, including three children, were killed Friday by gunmen in the southern Mexico border state of Chiapas in a town marred by militia violence. Julio Pérez, the mayor of the Chiapas town of Pantelho, said the killings happened there Friday, and called it “a massacre.” Two warring militia groups suspected of being backed …

Gunmen in Ecuador kill 8, injure 8 others in attack in coastal city of Guayaquil as violence surges
9 months, 1 week ago

Gunmen in Ecuador kill 8, injure 8 others in attack in coastal city of Guayaquil as violence surges

The Independent  

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Group turned away at Mexican holiday party returned with gunmen killing 11, investigators say
1 year ago

Group turned away at Mexican holiday party returned with gunmen killing 11, investigators say

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Survivors of a Sunday massacre in central Mexico told investigators that a group of people turned away from a holiday party returned later with gunmen who killed 11 and wounded 14, authorities said Tuesday. Navigio Agustín Gallardo Romero, a Guanajuato state prosecutor, said nine men and two women were killed. The state prosecutor’s office had revised the …

16 killed in Christmas-season shootings in central Mexico state of Guanajuato
1 year ago

16 killed in Christmas-season shootings in central Mexico state of Guanajuato

The Hindu  

Gunmen attacked a Christmas season party early on December 17, killing a dozen people in the town of Salvatierra in Mexico’s north-central State of Guanajuato, prosecutors said. Meanwhile, in the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum, three men were shot to death and four people were wounded in an attack at a bar on Dec. 17, authorities said. Quintana Roo state …

Mexico shootings: 16 killed after gunmen attack people returning from Christmas party in Guanajuato
1 year ago

Mexico shootings: 16 killed after gunmen attack people returning from Christmas party in Guanajuato

India TV News  

At least 16 people were killed and several others injured after the gunmen attacked a Christmas season party early on Sunday in the town of Salvatierra in Mexico's north-central state of Guanajuato. According to the local media, the gunmen in Salvatierra attacked people when they were leaving an event hall following a Christmas party known as a “posada”. Mexico: 11 …

16 killed in Christmas-season shootings in central Mexico state of Guanajuato
1 year ago

16 killed in Christmas-season shootings in central Mexico state of Guanajuato

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Gunmen attacked a Christmas season party early Sunday, killing a dozen people in the town of Salvatierra in Mexico’s north-central state of Guanajuato, prosecutors said. Local media said the victims in Salvatierra were leaving an event hall following a Christmas party known as a “posada” when they were gunned down. Quintana Roo state prosecutors said a preliminary …

At least 11 dead after clash between gang and villagers in central Mexico
1 year, 1 month ago

At least 11 dead after clash between gang and villagers in central Mexico

Al Jazeera  

At least 11 people have been killed in a violent confrontation between suspected gang members and residents of a small farming town in central Mexico, authorities have said. Local media said gunmen belonging to Familia Michoacana, a drug cartel blamed for the massacre of 20 people in neighbouring Guerrero state last year, had arrived at the village demanding local farmers …

Armed attack kills 10 in Ecuador port of Guayaquil
1 year, 8 months ago

Armed attack kills 10 in Ecuador port of Guayaquil

Al Jazeera  

Three people have also been wounded in the shooting including a five-year-old girl, police say. At least 10 people have been killed in an armed attack overnight in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s main port city and economic hub that is under a state of emergency due to rising drug violence, the public prosecutor’s office and police have reported. “We believe that this …

Gunmen shoot up resort in central Mexico, killing 7 people
1 year, 8 months ago

Gunmen shoot up resort in central Mexico, killing 7 people

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — A band of gunmen invaded a resort where dozens of vacationers were spending the weekend in central Mexico and opened fire, killing six adults and a 7-year-old, authorities said. Officials in the Cortazar municipality in Guanajuato state said in a statement that an eighth person was seriously wounded in the midafternoon attack at the La Palma resort. …

Minor among 7 killed by gunmen at water park in central Mexico
1 year, 8 months ago

Minor among 7 killed by gunmen at water park in central Mexico

India Today  

Gunmen stormed a water park in central Mexico on Saturday and killed six adults and a child, unleashing panic among those present, local authorities said. three dead women, three men and a seven-year-old minor, in addition to one person seriously wounded," said a statement from City Hall in Cortazar, the municipality where the attack took place. READ | Gunfire, explosions …

Six people, including mother and baby, killed in Tulare County; drug cartel suspected
1 year, 11 months ago

Six people, including mother and baby, killed in Tulare County; drug cartel suspected

LA Times  

Six people, including a 6-month old baby, her teenage mother and an elderly woman, were killed Monday in a Central Valley farming community in what the local sheriff said was likely a targeted attack by a drug cartel. “I think it’s specifically connected to the cartel,” Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux told The Times without specifying a particular criminal organization. …

Bar shooting leaves 9 dead in central Mexican state, gang war suspected
2 years, 1 month ago

Bar shooting leaves 9 dead in central Mexican state, gang war suspected

India Today  

A shooting left nine dead and two wounded at a bar in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, which has increasingly suffered from cartel violence, local authorities said Thursday. An armed group arrived at the bar around 9 pm Wednesday in the town of Apaseo el Alto, outside of Celaya, and opened fire on those inside, authorities said in a …

Drug gang kills 20 in attack on city hall in southern Mexico
2 years, 3 months ago

Drug gang kills 20 in attack on city hall in southern Mexico

Associated Press  

SAN MIGUEL TOTOLAPAN, Mexico — A drug gang shot to death 20 people, including a mayor and his father, in the mountains of the southern Mexico state of Guerrero, officials said Thursday. The Guerrero state security council said gunmen burst into the town hall in the village of San Miguel Totolapan Wednesday and opened fire on a meeting the mayor …

Mexico cartel violence leaves several dead and property destroyed after week of fighting
2 years, 4 months ago

Mexico cartel violence leaves several dead and property destroyed after week of fighting

ABC  

Two Mexican cities along the border with the United States are on high alert after a week of cartel violence across the country. Key points: Dozens of cars have been hijacked and burned during a week of cartel violence Tijuana's mayor has urged cartels to keep the violence between themselves and not innocent civilians Widespread violence started earlier in the …

Mexican border cities hit by burning vehicles, blockades
2 years, 4 months ago

Mexican border cities hit by burning vehicles, blockades

Associated Press  

TIJUANA, Mexico — The Mexican border cities of Tijuana and Mexicali along with Rosarito and Ensenada were hit by gang violence that included vehicles being set ablaze and road blockades. “Today we are saying to the organized crime groups that are committing these crimes, that Tijuana is going to remain open and take care of its citizens,” Caballero said in …

5 teens, elderly woman dead after gunmen open fire on students in Mexico
2 years, 7 months ago

5 teens, elderly woman dead after gunmen open fire on students in Mexico

India Today  

Gunmen killed five high school students and an adult in a street shooting in central Mexico, local authorities said on Tuesday. "Unfortunately we can say that a few hours ago in the Barron community six people lost their lives in an armed attack," said Cesar Prieto, mayor of the city in Guanajuato state. The mass shooting happened just two weeks …

19 Bodies Found After Shooting in Central Mexico
2 years, 9 months ago

19 Bodies Found After Shooting in Central Mexico

News 18  

Nineteen people were shot and killed in central Mexico on Sunday, the State Attorney General’s Office said in a statement. The attack was believed to be motivated by “revenge” by one cell of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel against another, deputy security minister Ricardo Mejia said. Earlier this month gunmen killed nine people in an attack on a house in …

19 killed in shootout in central Mexico
2 years, 9 months ago

19 killed in shootout in central Mexico

India Today  

Nineteen people were shot and killed in central Mexico on Sunday, the State Attorney General's Office said in a statement. Federal authorities are working "with the aim of capturing those responsible for the violent acts," the office of Michoacan's secretary of public security said on Twitter. The attack was believed to be motivated by "revenge" by one cell of the …

Mexico shooting: Gunmen kill 20 in Michoacan state
2 years, 9 months ago

Mexico shooting: Gunmen kill 20 in Michoacan state

Al Jazeera  

The attack took place in Michoacan state, which has been at the centre of spiraling drug-cartel violence in the country. At least 20 people have been killed and several others wounded in a mass shooting in central Mexico, authorities have said, in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years. Michoacan and neighbouring Guanajuato state have seen years of violence …

5 suspected cartel gunmen dead in massive Mexico firefight
2 years, 9 months ago

5 suspected cartel gunmen dead in massive Mexico firefight

The Independent  

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7 killed in shooting at mechanic's shop in Mexico
3 years, 6 months ago

7 killed in shooting at mechanic's shop in Mexico

India TV News  

Prosecutors in Mexico's most violent state said seven men have been shot to death at a mechanic's shop. Guanajuato has Mexico's highest number of homicides, and has been the scene of turf battles between the Jalisco drug cartel and local gangs. There was no immediate information on a possible motive in the shootings, but such attacks in Guanajuato in the …

2 police hanged from bridge in Mexico, 7 killed in shooting
3 years, 6 months ago

2 police hanged from bridge in Mexico, 7 killed in shooting

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Authorities in northern Mexico said Wednesday they found the bodies of two abducted police officers hanging from an overpass, and the bodies of seven people shot to death in a neighboring city. The killings in Zacatecas came one day after prosecutors in Mexico’s most violent state, Guanajuato, reported seven men were shot to death at a mechanic’s …

In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes
3 years, 7 months ago

In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their …

Gunmen Ambush Police Convoy Near Mexico City, Killing 13
3 years, 9 months ago

Gunmen Ambush Police Convoy Near Mexico City, Killing 13

News 18  

Gunmen apparently from a drug gang ambushed a police convoy Thursday in central Mexico killing eight state police officers and five prosecution investigators in a hail of gunfire, authorities said. The massacre of the 13 law enforcement officers in the State of Mexico was the country’s single biggest slaying of law enforcement since October 2019, when cartel gunmen ambushed and …

Families begin burying murdered Guatemalan migrants
3 years, 9 months ago

Families begin burying murdered Guatemalan migrants

Associated Press  

COMITANCILLO, Guatemala — Families of some of the 16 Guatemalan migrants killed near the Mexico-U.S. border in late January began burying their remains Saturday in the town of Comitancillo, where 11 of the victims were from. The migrants’ charred bodies arrived Friday night to the region near Guatemala’s border with Mexico after being sent from the other side of Mexico, …

Dozen state police charged in the massacre of 19 in Mexico
3 years, 11 months ago

Dozen state police charged in the massacre of 19 in Mexico

Associated Press  

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — A dozen state police officers were being questioned Wednesday following their arrests in connection with the killings of 19 people, including Guatemalan migrants, whose bodies were found shot and burned near the U.S. border late in January. “In the aforementioned acts of Jan. 22, at least 12 state police officers participated,” Barrios Mojica said. But Barrios …

In Guatemala, families say 13 killed in Mexico were migrants
3 years, 11 months ago

In Guatemala, families say 13 killed in Mexico were migrants

Associated Press  

COMITANCILLO, Guatemala — In this impoverished Indigenous village, families are convinced that 13 of their relatives were among the 19 bullet-ridden, burned bodies found in northern Mexico near the U.S. border last week. Roman Catholic leaders in Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas said in an open letter to Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei and Mexican President Andrés Manuel …

Nine killed in armed attack on wake in central Mexico
4 years ago

Nine killed in armed attack on wake in central Mexico

Al Jazeera  

Guanajuato is at the centre of a turf war between rival organised crime groups in which thousands have been killed. Nine people were killed and one wounded when attackers opened fire at a wake in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, officials have said. Thousands have been killed in Guanajuato since the local Santa Rosa de Lima gang faced off …

Drugs gang massacre in Mexican bar sees 11 killed including four female dancers
4 years, 3 months ago

Drugs gang massacre in Mexican bar sees 11 killed including four female dancers

Daily Mail  

Gunmen massacred 11 people including four dancers and then left their bullet ridden bodies in a bar in Mexico's most violent state. Guanajuato, a major carmaking hub, has become a recurring scene of criminal violence in Mexico, ravaged by a turf war between the local Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel. The killing took …

Prosecutors: gunmen in Mexico massacre of 27 had a target
4 years, 6 months ago

Prosecutors: gunmen in Mexico massacre of 27 had a target

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — The gunmen who killed at least 27 people in an unregistered drug rehabilitation center in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato last week were looking for someone in particular, state prosecutors said Monday. In a statement, the Guanajuato state prosecutor’s office said that three suspected gunmen were in custody and allegedly belong to a criminal organization operating …

Gunmen kill 24 people in attack on Mexican drug rehab centre
4 years, 6 months ago

Gunmen kill 24 people in attack on Mexican drug rehab centre

Al Jazeera  

Attack in Guanajuato is one of the worst mass slayings since President Lopez Obrador took office in December 2018. At least 24 people were killed in an armed attack on a drug rehabilitation facility in the central Mexican city of Irapuato, Mexican police said on Wednesday, underlining the challenge the government has in fulfilling a pledge to stop gang violence. …

Mexico hunts cartel gunmen after deadly firefight kills 22
5 years, 1 month ago

Mexico hunts cartel gunmen after deadly firefight kills 22

China Daily  

VILLA UNION, Mexico - Mexican forces hunted on Monday for drug cartel gunmen behind a bloody firefight in a town near the US border that left six locals and 16 gunmen dead - the latest security embarrassment for Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Mexican officials responded by deploying the army, the National Guard and police forces, triggering a series …

FBI Joins Investigation Into Killing Of 9 Members Of Mormon Family In Mexico
5 years, 1 month ago

FBI Joins Investigation Into Killing Of 9 Members Of Mormon Family In Mexico

NPR  

FBI Joins Investigation Into Killing Of 9 Members Of Mormon Family In Mexico Enlarge this image toggle caption Marco Ugarte/AP Marco Ugarte/AP The FBI has joined an investigation into the killing of three women and six children last week along a mountain road in northwest Mexico, an ambush that has shaken the Mormon community that has lived near the border …

5 US citizens killed in grisly Mexico attack
5 years, 2 months ago

5 US citizens killed in grisly Mexico attack

India TV News  

At least five US citizens -- a mother and four children -- have been killed in a violent attack by suspected drug cartel gunmen in northern Mexico, the media reported on Tuesday. The victims were said to be members of the LeBaron family, linked to a breakaway Mormon community which settled in Mexico several decades ago, reports the BBC. LeBaron …

North Mexico attack: Three women, six children killed in ambush
5 years, 2 months ago

North Mexico attack: Three women, six children killed in ambush

Al Jazeera  

Mexican officials say the attack on the Mormon family may have been a case of mistaken identity. At least three women and six children, all apparently US citizens, were killed by drug cartel gunmen in northern Mexico, officials said on Tuesday. Security officials said the attack on Tuesday which occurred on a dirt road between Chihuahua and Sonora states, which …

Mexico’s Obrador faces anger after police killed in cartel ambush
5 years, 2 months ago

Mexico’s Obrador faces anger after police killed in cartel ambush

Al Jazeera  

Killing of 13 officers in Michoacan on Monday was followed by another shooting on Tuesday in Guerrero that left 15 dead. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has defended his strategy for fighting the violent crime racking Mexico, after the killing of 13 police officers in an ambush claimed by a powerful drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan. “And …

Gunmen kill eight people in Mexico
5 years, 5 months ago

Gunmen kill eight people in Mexico

India TV News  

Gunmen killed eight people and wounded two others early Wednesday in Bacalar, a town in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, state prosecutors said. The victims were travelling in an SUV with tags from Yucatan state when they were stopped by the gunmen and shot, the Quintana Roo Attorney General's Office said. The area is close to the intersection outside …

At least 15 killed in shooting at Mexico nightclub
5 years, 10 months ago

At least 15 killed in shooting at Mexico nightclub

India Today  

At least 15 people were killed and another seven wounded in a shooting at a nightclub early on Saturday in Mexico's violence-wracked Guanajuato state, according to the local prosecutor's office. This week President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador launched a major offensive to capture local gang leader Jose Antonio Yepez, known as "El Marro." According to a statement from the Guanajuato …

Mexico nightclub shooting: 15 dead, four injured after heavily armed men open fire in Salamanca club
5 years, 10 months ago

Mexico nightclub shooting: 15 dead, four injured after heavily armed men open fire in Salamanca club

Firstpost  

Guanajuato: At least 15 men have died following a shooting at a nightclub in central Mexico, prosecutors said Saturday. Another four people, three men and a woman, suffered injuries, public prosecutor’s office spokesman Juan Jose Martinez told AFP by telephone. The attack took place in the early hours Saturday as several heavily armed men opened fire at the La Playa …

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