Armed men kill 7 people, including children, in a central -Mexico; Leave the cartel messages at the scene

Officials said armed men opened the fire and killed seven people, including some minors, in the deadliest state of Mexico, in which the violence between warfare drug cartels had conducted the Catholic Church.

The attack in the central state of Guanajuato On Monday around 2 a.m. in a place in the city of San Felipe, where the local police found seven corpses, all male and a damaged van, after reports on shots, the local government said in a statement.

The officers also found two banners with news that alludes to the Santa Rosa de Lima GangThe explanation says what works in the area. Are news Often left back to the victim's body Through cartels that want to threaten their competitors or want to punish behavior violate their rules.

Guanajuato is a flourishing industrial center and home of several popular tourist destinations, but according to official murder statistics also Mexican state in Mexico.

Violent crime is associated with conflicts between the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the Jalalco New Generation Cartel, one of the most powerful in the Latin American nation.

The Mexican leaders of the Catholic Church condemned the shootout on Monday and called them “an alarming sign for the weakening of the social structure, impunity and the lack of peace in wide regions of the country”, which is majority Catholic.

“We cannot remain indifferent to what the spiral of violence that so many communities wounded,” added the Bishops' Conference of Mexico, an organization of Mexican bishops.

The shootout was “another among so many who are repeated with painful frequency,” it said.

In December, the church in Mexico asked for warfare to explain a ceasefire.

Guanajuato recorded most of each state in Mexico with 3,151, 10.5 percent of the murders nationwide last year.

Since 2006, when the military started an anti-drug operation, Mexico has achieved around 480,000 violent deaths.

Young people bloodshed in Guanajuato

The mass shootings mark the latest fatal attack in Guanajuato, where spectators and police officers are often victims in the middle of cartel lawn wars.

In February there were five women and three men shot In the street in Guanajuato. The month earlier, the security forces collided with armed men in the state and went 10 suspicious criminals dead and three police officers injured.

In December 2024, Eight people were killed And two others wounded after armed men in Guanajuato were made to a street stock and the customers opened the fire.

Last October in October the corpses of 12 murdered police officers – everyone wearing Signs of torture And let news from cartels – were found in various areas of the region. The public prosecutor also said that the perpetrators left news in which a cartel took responsibility.

The corpses were found less than 24 hours later Armed men attacked a residential center Four for people who suffer from addiction in the same community.

In June 2024, a baby and a toddler belonged to six members of the same family murdered in Guanajuato. In April 2024 was a candidate for mayor shot on the street In the state, just when she started to deal with the campaign.

The US State Department asks the Americans to travel to Guanajuato. “The high number of murders in the southern region of the state is particularly worrying in connection with violence in connection with cartel,” says the department in travel advice.