In Mexico, an attack with long weapons attributed by the authorities to fights between criminal groups left 10 dead and nine injured among those attending a rally in the town of Ensenada (north, on the border with the United States).
In Mexico, an attack with long weapons attributed by the authorities to fights between criminal groups left 10 dead and nine injured among those attending a rally in the town of Ensenada (north, on the border with the United States).
Hooded men got out of a pickup truck on Saturday, May 20, and opened fire on the amateur pilots who had made a stop at the edge of a road, after which they fled.
In a statement to which the AFP This Sunday, the Baja California state prosecutor, Ricardo Iván Carpio, said that the vehicle from which the attackers would have fired was abandoned at the scene of the events and that it has at least three bullet holes and blood stains inside. . Two cars were used in the attack.
“With these new findings we can determine that this incident is due to a confrontation between presumed criminals who shot at each other at the event,” said the prosecutor, quoted in the text.
The Mexican Prosecutor’s Office explained that the attack was repelled by some people who were on the side of the pilots. Therefore, “investigations will be aimed at establishing the origin and motive of the confrontation between alleged organized crime groups,” he stressed.
The massacre in Mexico occurred when the motorists, who were participating in an adventure caravan, were parked on the side of a highway and a group of men got out of a truck and opened fire.
The aggression “left a balance of 9 injured and 10 people dead,” the Ensenada government said in a statement.
“I am in permanent communication with the State Attorney General’s Office, as well as with the federal corporations of the three levels of government to provide all the necessary information,” reported the mayor of Ensenada, Armando Ayala.
Videos posted on social media show the bloody bodies of some drivers next to their SUVs on a dusty sidewalk.
One of the motorists, still wearing a helmet, is also observed lying on the door of his car and the arrival of personnel from the security forces.
The Baja California prosecutor’s office – a state hard hit by drug violence – formed a “special investigation group” to identify the murderers and determine the motives for the massacre.
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