At least seven dead people y two more wounds left two attacks armed in the last 12 hours in the Mexican state of Veracruz, local authorities reported on Monday.
Los multihomicidios occurred in the municipalities of Tlalixcoyancentral coastal area, and in San Andres Tuxtlajungle region of southern Veracruz, an entity with insecurity problems that had been kept at bay in recent months.
The first violent event occurred on Monday morning in the interior of a house located in the municipality of Tlalixcoyan, where they were shot to death four members of a single familyincluding former municipal official Candido Sanchez Vargas.
According to police sources, in the events that occurred in the neighborhood centerOne more person was injured and taken to a hospital. hospital regional for your medical care.
Given the fact, agents of the Department of Public Security (SSP) activated the so-called Red Code Operation to search for those responsible. However, so far they have not been located.
Meanwhile, in the municipality of San Andres Tuxtlalocated in one of the jungle redoubts of the Mexican southeast, armed men entered a hotel in the afternoon and shot four people.
Three of them died on the spot and one more was seriously injured and was transferred to a hospital. hospital from the area.
After what happened, the municipal police mounted a strong operation of security.
During the first half of 2022 Veracruz It ranked first at the national level in the number of victims of atrocities and the first places in atrocious events, reported the civil organization Common Cause.
In its summary Gallery of horror: atrocities and high-impact events recorded in journalistic media, from January to June Veracruz was one of the nine states that concentrated the highest number of cases of atrocities con 157.
The states with the most victims of recorded atrocities during the period were Veracruz, with at least 784; Chiapas, with 641; Michoacancon 392; Guanajuatowith 365 and Baja Californiacon 284.
Mexico registered 33 thousand 308 homicides in 2021 after the two most violent years in its history, under the mandate of the president Andres Lopez Obradorwith 34,690 murder victims in 2019 and 34,554 in 2020.
With information from EFE