ten people killed in armed attack on a bar in Querétaro

Ten people were killed in the attack on a bar by four armed individuals on Saturday, November 9, in Querétaro, in central Mexico.

“Four armed people arrived with long-range weapons aboard a van”announced the head of public security of Querétaro, Juan Luis Ferrusca Ortiz, . “Ten people died inside and at least seven others were injured”he continued.

The attackers arrived in a vehicle whose license plate number was identified, said the Querétaro public security official. The vehicle was set on fire “by the alleged perpetrators”. The emergency services received a call after 9 p.m. (4 a.m. in Paris). One person is in police custody and will be referred to the General Prosecutor's Office of the State of Querétaro, added Juan Luis Ferrusca Ortiz.

The Los Cantaritos bar is located on the circular boulevard near the historic center of Querétaro, a 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 Querétaro 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 federal entities – thirty and a States and Mexico City – what is Mexico.