Mass shooting in gang-plagued Mexican state leaves 12 dead and more injured
MEXICO CITY: At least 12 people were killed, including a teenager, and more wounded in a Tuesday night shooting in the central Mexican city of Irapuato, authorities said on Wednesday.
The attorney general's office in Guanajuato, the violence-plagued state where Irapuato is located, said some 20 others were hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said earlier on Wednesday that the victims included children, although the attorney general's office later confirmed only one casualty was a minor, aged 17.
'It is very unfortunate what happened. An investigation is under way,' Sheinbaum said.
Local media reported the shooting happened during an evening party celebrating a Catholic holiday, the Nativity of John the Baptist.
A video circulating on social media showed people dancing in the patio of a housing complex while a band played in the background, before gunfire erupted. Reuters was not immediately able to verify the video.
Guanajuato has been for many years one of the most violent regions in the country.
On Tuesday, five other people were killed in other parts of the state, according to the attorney general's office.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Al Arabiya
2 hours ago
- Al Arabiya
Saudi Arabia condemns Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians in West Bank, Gaza
Saudi Arabia issued a statement Friday condemning violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers and soldiers against the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza and the West Bank. The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Kingdom's 'condemnation and denunciation of the continued violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, against Palestinian civilians, including the attacks in the village of Kafr Malik, east of Ramallah.' Saudi Arabia also reiterated its 'condemnation of the continued Israeli violence against unarmed civilians in Gaza, including the targeting of civilian sites housing displaced persons,' the statement added. It called on the international community to help end 'Israeli violations of international laws and norms.' At least four people were killed in two separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian health ministry, including a 15-year-old boy who it said was shot by Israeli troops. The teenager was reportedly killed in the northern West Bank town of al-Yamoun, while three other people died in a separate clash in the southern village of Kafr Malik.
Al Arabiya
14 hours ago
- Al Arabiya
Prosecutors in Jalisco, Mexico say they found 34 bodies in a mass grave
Prosecutors in the western Mexican state of Jalisco said Friday that investigators have found at least 34 bodies in a mass grave discovered earlier this year. Human remains packed into 169 bags were discovered during excavations at a construction site in the city of Zapopan in February. Construction teams alerted authorities, who launched a forensic investigation. After months of work at the site, forensic experts reported identifying at least 17 bodies and continue working to identify additional victims and analyze the scene. The gruesome discovery has once again drawn attention to Jalisco, which in March became the center of controversy after collectives searching for missing people found human remains and hundreds of clothing items in a ranch once used by the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel for recruiting and training members. To date, some 15 people have been arrested in connection with the case, including the mayor of Teuchitlán, who was detained last month. The Rancho Izaguirre case sent chills down the spines of many Mexicans, who for years have endured soaring levels of cartel violence and the forced disappearance of more than 125,000 people. Families searching for their missing loved ones say that discoveries of such sites underscore the depth of violence and impunity in violence-torn regions like Jalisco. The discovery of the mass grave in Zapopan prompted calls from victims' families and human rights advocates for authorities to better investigate the scene and funnel more resources into the search for missing people.
Arab News
15 hours ago
- Arab News
Two sentenced in Texas for role in deaths of 53 migrants
Felipe Orduna-Torres, 30, headed a network that brought adults and children from Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico into the USDistrict Judge Orlando Garcia of the Western District of Texas sentenced Orduna-Torres to life in prisonHOUSTON: The leader of a human smuggling ring convicted of involvement in the deaths of 53 migrants in a sweltering truck in Texas in 2022 was sentenced to life in prison on Orduna-Torres, 30, headed a network that brought adults and children from Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico into the United States between December 2021 and June 2022, according to was convicted in March of transporting aliens within the United States resulting in death, causing serious bodily injury, and placing lives in Judge Orlando Garcia of the Western District of Texas sentenced Orduna-Torres to life in prison on Friday and a $250,000 fine, the Justice Department said in a convicted member of the smuggling ring, Armando Gonzales-Ortega, 55, was sentenced to 83 years in prison for his involvement in the deaths of the 53 migrants.'These criminals will spend the rest of their lives in prison because of their cruel choice to profit off of human suffering,' Attorney General Pamela Bondi said. 'Today's sentences are a powerful message to human smugglers everywhere: we will not rest until you are behind bars.'Five other defendants have pleaded guilty to their roles in the fatal smuggling operation and are to be sentenced later this alleged member of the smuggling ring, Rigoberto Ramon Miranda-Orozco, 48, was extradited to the United States from Guatemala and is scheduled to go on trial in to the US authorities, the smugglers charged $12,000 to $15,000 per person to bring the migrants, who mostly hailed from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, into the United least 64 migrants including eight children and a pregnant woman were loaded into a 53-foot (16-meter) tractor-trailer on or around June 27, 2022 to be moved across the US-Mexico trailer's air conditioning was not working properly and the temperature inside the truck soared as it drove north to San people were dead when the trailer reached San Antonio and five more died later in hospital. Six children and the pregnant woman were among the dead.
