Ten people were killed and seven others injured in the attack on a bar by four armed individuals on Saturday evening in Querétaro in central Mexico, said the security chief of this city generally spared from narco-violence.
“Four armed people arrived with long-range weapons aboard a van,” said Juan Luis Ferrusca Ortiz in a video published in 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 Querétaro, he added.
Three women were among the victims, according to the Querétaro state prosecutor’s office.
Emergency services received a call after 9 p.m. local time (3 a.m. GMT).
The Los Cantaritos bar is located on the circular boulevard near the historic center of Querétaro, 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 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 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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