Authorities said Sunday that seven people were killed and five injured in a shooting at a club in southeast Mexico. This is the most recent in a string of such incidents in the violent nation.
According to a statement from the secretariat of security and civilian protection. A manhunt has been initiated to find the individuals responsible for the shooting that took place in the city of Villahermosa in Tabasco state on Saturday night.
It also added
“Analysis of video surveillance cameras is being carried out and elements of the state and federal authorities have deployed coordinated patrols to locate and arrest those responsible,”.
The Tabasco public prosecutor’s office later reported that two more people had perished in the attack on what it characterized as “a clandestine bar that operated irregularly.”
Local media reported that unidentified gunmen entered the club La Casita Azul and began shooting patrons, leaving the floor covered in bloody corpses.
In recent months, violent violence has increased in Tabasco, which is home to oil extraction plants.
Another gun attack on a Villahermosa pub in November claimed six lives and injured ten.
It happened two weeks after ten people were killed in a bar attack in Queretaro, a central area that had hitherto been immune to organized crime-related violence.
Six individuals were slain in a shooting at a bar in a Mexico City suburb that same weekend.
Since the government sent the army to fight drug trafficking in 2006, Mexico has suffered more than 450,000 drug-related deaths, according to official statistics.
One of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s biggest concerns is dealing with the daily killings and kidnappings.
The former mayor of Mexico City, who was elected as the nation’s first female president on October 1, has refrained from announcing a “war” against drug gangs.
Rather, she has promised to carry on her predecessor’s approach of utilizing intelligence more effectively and social policy to address the underlying causes of crime.
