On Good Saturday, a group of gunmen broke into a crowded water park in La Palma, in the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico, and killed seven people, according to local authorities. Among those killed was a seven-year-old child.

When police arrived at the scene, they found “cartridge cases and the bodies of three women, three men and a seven-year-old child.” “One person was seriously injured,” the municipality of Cortazar, where the attack took place, said in a statement.

The water park owner said, according to the same source, that the gunmen arrived at the entertainment center around 4:30 pm on Holy Saturday local time (Easter Sunday at 01:30 am Greek time) to carry out the massacre.

The attackers directly targeted a specific group of people, executed its members, and then wreaked havoc at the mall’s mall and took cameras and a screen from a closed surveillance system with them, authorities said.

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A video uploaded to the Debate Noticias website shows the victims lying on the ground amid clouds of smoke that appeared to be from gunshots, while bystanders ran for cover or their families.

In the video, a man with a camera says that “we had gunfights, there are dead people in the water park (…) they came killer [δηλαδή πληρωμένοι εκτελεστές]about twenty.”

A water park with gardens and pools next to the university campus was surrounded by the army and state police. An investigation is underway.

The massacre was recorded on the last day of school spring break.

There have already been reports of incidents on Pacific and Caribbean beaches, but this is the first attack on a family resort.

The industrial state of Guanajuato, once prosperous, is now among the hardest hit by organized crime, as it has become a battlefield for the New Generation Jalisco and Santa Rosa de Lima cartels. The first is the most powerful cartel in the country, the second, which began its activities mainly with the theft of fuel, has grown stronger.

Most of the attacks in the area take place at night and usually target bars. Usually the authorities refer them to current accounts.

Detoxification centers were also attacked, especially in June and July 2020 (10 and 24 deaths respectively).

Since December 2006, when the so-called “war on drugs” was launched with the introduction of military forces inside the country, more than 350,000 murders have been committed in Mexico, most of which, according to official figures, are attributed to organized crime. .

Source: APE-MPE, CNN.