Mexico City (TIP): Survivors of a Sunday massacre in central Mexico told investigators that a group of people turned away from a holiday party returned later with gunmen who killed 11 and wounded 14, authorities said on December 19.
Navigio Agustín Gallardo Romero, a Guanajuato state prosecutor, said nine men and two women were killed. The state prosecutor’s office had revised the death toll down to 11 Monday night from 12, explaining that there was confusion with a victim from a separate case at the hospital. Authorities recovered shells from seven different guns at the scene, Gallardo said in a recorded video message. He said investigators are focusing on a group that operates in the area without providing more detail. Families carried the caskets of some of the victims through the streets of Salvatierra on Tuesday. Guanajuato has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Jalisco cartel and local gangs backed by the Sinaloa cartel. The state has long had the highest number of homicides in Mexico.
On Monday, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel López Obrador called for Guanajuato’s state prosecutor to step down. (AP)
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Group turned away at Mexican holiday party returned with gunmen killing 11, say investigators
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18 dead as Mexican bus carrying foreign migrants crashes
MEXICO CITY (TIP): At least 18 people were killed and at least 23 injured August 3 when a bus carrying foreign migrants and locals plummeted into a ravine in northwestern Mexico, authorities said.
Three minors were among the dead, the civil protection agency in Nayarit state reported.
The bus, with around 40 people on board, was traveling from Mexico City to northwestern Tijuana, which borders San Diego, from where numerous migrants attempt to seek refuge in the United States.
“Most of the passengers are foreigners and originating from countries such as India, the Dominican Republic and from the African continent, among others, some of whom were heading to Tijuana to cross into the United States,” the civil protection agency said.
The driver has been detained on suspicion of speeding, causing him to lose control and plunge down an embankment near the state capital Tepic, the agency reported. Deadly road accidents are common in Mexico, usually due to high speeds, poor vehicle conditions or driver fatigue. Such crashes are a leading cause of deaths among migrants making the dangerous journey overland to the United States. (AFP)