MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen driving in a truck opened fire on Saturday killing 11 people in the western state of Jalisco, Mexico, who also injured a woman and a youth, authorities said. said.
Jalisco, where a former governor was shot dead in December, is one of the centers of drug-related warfare in Mexico, and home to the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
According to the state prosecutor, ten men with gunshot wounds were found dead outside a house in Tonala, a municipality in the Guadalajara area, with another male body inside.
The injured woman and young man, who was apparently a minor, were treated, the office said in a statement, but other details are not immediately known.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office at the end of 2018 and promised to reduce entrenched violence, but he continues with mass killings and tens of thousands of murders a year.
In December, former Jalisco governor Aristotle Sandoval was shot dead in a restaurant in the beach town of Puerto Vallarta.
(Posted by Daina Beth Solomon and Sharay Angulo)