An armed attack during an uprising in the city of Celaya, in the state of Guanajuato, in central Mexico, left at least nine people dead, local authorities informed on Thursday.
The events took place around 21:00 (03:00 GMT) in a house located in the Arboledas neighborhood of San Rafael, where the awakening took place, the public security secretariat Celaya reported.
Heavily armed subjects arrived on the scene and shot the assistants.
According to local authorities, the attack number was nine dead, all men, and another was injured.
The massacre led to the mobilization of security agents at the three levels of government; however, no reports of arrests have been made so far.
This is the second massacre in 2021 to take place in Guanajuato, an entity with about 6 million inhabitants and located in the central region of Mexico.
Just last January 4, in the city of León, five people who were in an apartment were shot, four died on the spot and another died while being treated at the hospital.
Both events are a reflection of the violence that has intensified since 2018 in Guanajuato, an entity that since that year has concentrated the largest number of intentional homicides in the country.
This, according to local authorities, is the product of the dispute between the various organized crime groups, mainly the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel and the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel.
Nine out of 10 crimes are said to be related to the phenomenon, according to Secretary of State for Public Security Alvar Cabeza de Vaca.
Official figures show that by 2020, by November, 4,190 people had been killed in Guanajuato, 1,547 cases more than the second-highest homicide, which is the tourist state of Baja California.
Meanwhile, at the national level, the federal authorities estimate that 34,523 people were killed at the end of 2020, which would be a decrease of 0.4% compared to 2019, the year in which the intentional homicides recorded a record number of 34,648 people. victims. .