The Prosecutor’s Office was informed at 22:30 local time (01:30 Argentine time) of an “aggression perpetrated against those attending an illegal cockfight” that was being held in the town of Las Jarsand upon arrival at the scene found “19 lifeless bodies (16 men and three women), who had wounds caused by gunshots,” according to the statement.
Several people were injured and they were transferred to hospitals, added the same source.
The FGE opened an investigation to clarify what happened.
Mexico is immersed in a spiral of violence that has left some 340,000 dead -mostly attributed to actions of organized crime- since 2006 when a military offensive against drug traffickers was deployed.
The state of Michoacan and the neighbor Guanajuato They are two of the most violent in Mexico, due to the war between rival gangs involved in drug trafficking and other illegal activities.
In 2021, Michoacán registered 2,732 murders, equivalent to just over 8% of the 33,315 intentional homicides that occurred in all of Mexico.
On March 10, the mayor of the municipality of Aguililla in Michoacán, César Valencia, was shot dead while in a city council van.
Source: Ambito
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