Global Courant 2023-05-21 23:28:13
A stroke with long weapons against a group of pilots rally fans in the Mexican town of Ensenada (north, bordering the United States) left 10 dead and nine injured on Saturday, authorities said.
The slaughter It occurred in the afternoon when the motorists, who were participating in an adventure race, were parked on the side of a highway and a group of men got out of a truck and opened fire.
The attack “left a balance of 9 injured and 10 dead,” the Ensenada government said in a statement.
“I am in permanent communication with the State Attorney General’s Office, as well as with the federal corporations of the three levels of government to provide all the necessary information,” said the mayor of Ensenada, Armando Ayala, in a statement.
Videos published on social networks show the bodies of some victims next to the vehicles all terrain on a dusty path.
The state prosecutor’s office Low California -to which Ensenada belongs and hard hit by drug violence- announced the formation of a “special investigation group” to identify the murderers and determine the motives for the massacre, the statement said.
Some injured received emergency care from local Red Cross paramedics, who later transferred them to hospitals in the urban center of Ensenada, a municipality of some 440,000 inhabitants.
For its desert lands, Low California It is home to off-road vehicle races in which drivers from all over the world participate.
Low California It is also one of the states with the most intentional homicides in Mexico, most of which are attributed by the government to wars between organized crime gangs. Between January and April, 721 murders were registered there, according to official data.
That and five other states concentrate 47.3% of the total homicides registered in the country in the same period (9,912).
There have also been shootings at other sporting events in Mexico.
On May 15, six people died, including three minors, during a armed attack against those attending a soccer match organized by a family in the city of Pachuca, in the central state of Hidalgo.
Mexico is involved in a spiral of violence that has left almost 400,000 dead and tens of thousands missing since 2006, when the government launched a controversial anti-drug offensive with the support of the United States and the participation of the Mexican armed forces.
