Mexico Shooting: According to local media citing the Guerrero state Attorney General’s Office, gunmen opened fire in a municipal hall and a house in a tiny hamlet in southern Mexico, killing 18 people including the mayor.
Conrado Mendoza, the mayor of San Miguel Totolapan, and his father Juan Mendoza, the former mayor, were both slain by an armed squad operating two SUVs while donning ski masks. According to Reforma newspaper, the majority of the ten victims who were named by authorities were local government officials.
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A prompt investigation is ordered by the Governor
Governor of Guerrero Evelyn Salgado Pineda, a member of the Morena party, which currently controls the country, requested a prompt investigation by the state attorney general’s office to shed light on the circumstances. Salgado Pineda said on Twitter that the intentional attack on the municipal president and local officials would not go unpunished.
The tragic assault follows a wave of gang violence in August that saw Jalisco Nueva Generacion Cartel narcos trash 25 Oxxo convenience stores in central Mexico after earlier arrests and cartel henchman torch automobiles in Colima state after the arrest of their commander.
Acapulco, a popular tourist destination in Mexico, is in the same state as San Miguel Totolapan. When Bloomberg News contacted the Attorney General’s Office in Guerrero for comment through phone and email, they did not react right away.
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According to a statement from Guerrero’s Public Safety Department, agents from the Defense Ministry took the injured to nearby hospitals with state and local police.
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