Officials said an official of a local Mexican government was shot in an amateur basketball game after a gunman’s bursting in a sports hall on Saturday.
Families and children were gathered at the Sports Center in the violent state of Guanazuato, where the city council secretary, Egnasio Ejandro Roro, was killed at APSEO L. Grande.
In a statement, the city council strongly condemned the trusted, lowly and cowardly attack on this Saturday, in which our colleagues and friends, City Council Secretary Ignasio Alejandro Roaro lost their lives. “
Local media said an armed person was arrested.
Guanazuato is a rich industrial center and is home to many popular tourist destinations, but also Mexico’s deadliest state due to gang turf wars,
Criminal violence, most of them have been associated with drug smuggling, have lost about 480,000 people in Mexico since 2006 and more than 120,000 people have gone missing.
Most of the violence in Guanajuato is associated with Santa Roja de Lima Gang and The Beach Conflict Jalisco new generation cartelOne of the most powerful in the Latin American nation. Jalisco Cartel is one of the many that has been done Nominated As a foreign terrorist organization by Trump administration.
According to official data, Guanazuato filed over 3,000 murders last year, which was the highest accounting for 10.5 percent of cases across the country in any Mexican state.
Bloodson continues this year.
In June, 11 people shot dead And around 20 other people were injured in a shooting, targeting a neighborhood party in Irapuato, about 50 miles west of APSEO L. Grande. Eight of those killed at the age of 17 were with adult men and two women, Guanajuato State Prosecutor Office saidSaying that the crime will not be unpublished.
A month ago, investigators said they 17 bodies found In a abandoned house in Guanajuato. A few days before that, the officials said that the gunmen set fire and Killed seven peopleWith the children, in the same state, and the authorities found two banners with messages to the Santa Rosa de Lima gang.
In February, there were five women and three men Shot killed In the street in Guanajuato. Before that month, security forces clashed with gunmen in the state, left 10 suspected criminals died And three police officers were injured.
