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

MEXICO CITY — Gunmen attacked a Christmas season get together early Sunday, killing a dozen individuals within the city of Salvatierra in Mexico’s north-central state of Guanajuato, prosecutors mentioned.

State prosecutors additionally reported that 4 different individuals died in a taking pictures within the metropolis of Salamanca, however didn’t describe the circumstances of that assault.

Native media mentioned the victims in Salvatierra had been leaving an occasion corridor following a Christmas get together often called a “posada” after they had been gunned down.

Guanajuato has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Jalisco cartel and native gangs backed by the Sinaloa cartel. The state has lengthy had the very best variety of homicides in Mexico.

In the meantime, within the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum, three males had been shot to demise and 4 individuals had been wounded in an assault at a bar Sunday, authorities mentioned.

Quintana Roo state prosecutors mentioned a preliminary investigation indicated the taking pictures “might have been a dispute involving retail drug gross sales, and for that cause the security of the general public and that of our guests, was by no means in danger.”

However shootouts between native drug gangs in Tulum have killed vacationers who had been caught within the crossfire previously.

In 2021 in Tulum, two vacationers — one a California journey blogger born in India and the opposite German — had been killed whereas consuming at a restaurant. They apparently had been caught within the crossfire of a gunfight between rival drug sellers.

Early this 12 months, the U.S. State Division issued a journey alert warning vacationers to “train elevated situational consciousness” particularly after darkish, at Mexico’s Caribbean seashore resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum.