This Monday six people were murdered in the municipality of Salamanca, Guanajuatoreported local authorities.
With this, he closed the violent day that began with the murder of the son of the mayor of Villagranneighboring municipality of Salamanca.
The multiple homicide was registered in the community of marram grasslocated 19 kilometers from the municipal seat, where six people were killed, four men and two women, in the vicinity of the primary school Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Municipal police, elements of the National Guard and the Mexican Army showed up at the scene and cordoned it off.
According to preliminary versions, the victims were at a neighborhood meeting when the attack occurred.
hours before, in Villagran, Florencio Lara Gonzalezson of the mayor of that municipality, Juan Lara Mendoza, was killed while driving a car.
His wife was also in the car. Mildred Elizabeth Alvaradowho died moments later at the hospital.
“It is an unfortunate fact. We must ask the Prosecutor’s Office to clarify this situation and arrest the culprits,” said the governor of Guanajuato, Diego Sinhue Rodriguezin an interview with the media.
Just two weeks ago, in the municipality of Celaya -located an hour from Salamanca- another massacre occurred in a bar that left 11 people dead.
According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, from January to April of this year in Guanajuato, 993 people were murdered in the entity, of which 227 died in April.
With this, it is the second state with the most cases in Mexico during the first four months of 2022, only below its neighboring state, Michoacán.
With information from EFE and López-Dóriga Digital
