Double attack in Maracaibo: criminals attack two businesses

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Maracaibo.- Five workers and three customers were injured bullet this Saturday morning, February 18, during a double shooting once morest a butcher shop and a supermarket in Maracaibo, state Zulia.

The first attack occurred at nine in the morning at the butcher shop Tu Finca Express, located in the La Paz urbanization. Two men aboard a motorcycle arrived at the premises, one of them entered and shot the two butchers and the cashier, according to witnesses consulted by The whistle.

The cashier and one of the butchers received a bullet in one of their legs and they were transferred to a private clinic. The other worker was shot in the abdomen and was taken to the Maracaibo University Hospital with a delicate health condition.

An hour and a half following this shooting, another was registered at the Samba Market supermarket, located on 78th street (Doctor Portillo) with 15th avenue (Delicias). Under the same modus operandi, one of the criminals got off the motorcycle, entered the premises and shot at the people present.

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In this second attack two women and three men were injured, including a cashier and a security guard. The state of health of these victims is unknown.

Shootings in Maracaibo are linked to the mafias

The attacks are linked to mafias dedicated to extortion. The butcher shop was the victim of a first shooting this year, but when the premises were closed, according to sources linked to the case.

officials from different Security forces They arrived at the establishments and closed them to initiate the investigations.

These attacks occur nine days following members of criminal gangs shot and threw a grenade at the Emergency room of the Paradise Medical Centerlocated on University Avenue.

The governor of Zulia, Manuel Rosales, assured on January 25 that extortions had dropped 50 percent in the region and that they maintained plans to end organized crime groups.

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