Video shared broadly on social media reveals individuals lined up towards a wall in Michoacan state earlier than gunshots ring out.
Mexico is investigating reviews that round 17 individuals had been executed within the state of Michoacan, after a grotesque video confirmed gunmen storming a funeral wake in the course of the weekend and dragging mourners outdoors to be killed.
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday urged endurance because the chief prosecutor’s workplace investigates what occurred, saying that he hoped “with all of his soul” that the occasions weren't true.
“We nonetheless don’t have all the data,” Lopez Obrador mentioned throughout his each day morning press convention, including that shell casings had been discovered however no our bodies.
A video shared broadly on social media confirmed a gaggle of individuals lined up towards a wall, most of them holding their arms behind their heads, earlier than apparently being shot in a barrage of bullets fired by surrounding gunmen.
Mexican media reported the mourners had been killed within the city of San Jose de Gracia, some 200km (125 miles) west of Morelia, the state capital of Michoacan, the place turf battles between rival drug cartels have despatched violence hovering.
The Michoacan chief prosecutor’s workplace late on Sunday mentioned that although no our bodies have been discovered, investigators found firearms cartridges on the web site the place the video was suspected to have been filmed in addition to “cleansing merchandise” in a bag, saying the “web site had lately been washed”.
The video on social media seems to have been filmed by a close-by neighbour via a window with a excessive vantage level, displaying the group of individuals lined up towards a white wall.
A number of gunmen are seen pointing rifles on the purported mourners till gunfire prompts the individual filming to cover for a few seconds.
When the uninterrupted video returns to indicate the identical spot on the road once more, the individuals can not be seen and there may be solely smoke and mud rising within the air.
Violence has elevated in sure components of Mexico the place drug cartels battle for management over trafficking routes and territory to extort residents. Concentrating on funeral wakes has turn into a part of the violence lately.
The incident occurred in a area the place the Jalisco New Technology (CJNG) cartel, the New Michoacan Household and Los Caballeros Templarios function and have been combating turf wars.
Earlier this month, 9 individuals had been killed in a single day when gunmen within the northern border metropolis of Ciudad Juarez killed three individuals on the wake of a person who died in jail, after which one other six on the identical man’s funeral later within the day.
In January of final 12 months, gunmen burst right into a wake within the central Mexican metropolis of Celaya and shot lifeless 9 individuals.
Citing official figures, native media reported that in 2021 the state of Michoacan ranked third within the nation for the best variety of homicides, with 2,732 murders.
Nationally, Mexico registered 33,308 homicides in 2021, after the 2 most violent years in its historical past; 34,554 murders had been reported in 2020 whereas 34,690 came about in 2019.
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