Ten people were killed and seven others injured in the attack on a bar by four armed individuals Saturday evening in Queretaro in central Mexico, said the security chief of this city generally spared from narco-violence.
“Four armed people arrived with long-range weapons in a van“, said Juan Luis Ferrusca Ortiz in a video posted on X. “Inside, ten people died and at least seven others were injured..”
The attackers arrived in a vehicle whose license plate number was identified, he said. The vehicle was set on fire.by the alleged perpetrators“.
A person is in police custody who will be referred to the General Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Queretaro, he added.
Three women were among the victims, according to the Queretaro state prosecutor’s office.
Emergency services received a call after 9:00 p.m. local time (03:00 GMT).
A state spared from narcoviolence
The “Los Cantaritos” bar is located on the circular boulevard near the historic center of Queretaro, a magnificent colonial city which hosted at the beginning of September as every year the Mexican edition of the “Hay festival”, a meeting of artists and intellectuals.
The state of Queretaro and its capital of the same name are generally spared the violence of drug trafficking or the rivalry between criminal gangs which agitates the neighboring state of Guanajuato, which records the most homicides among the 32 entities of Mexico.
Combating the killings and kidnappings that occur daily in Mexico is one of the main challenges facing left-wing President Claudia Sheinbaum.
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