Armed men on Saturday killed a child and six others after storming a resort in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities said.
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Footage widely shared on social media showed the aftermath of the attack in a palm-studded resort in the small town of Cortazar, about 65 km south of the Guanajuato city.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter.
But in recent years rival drug cartels have been waging brutal battles to control territory and trafficking routes through the state.taken soon after the attack showed shocked adults and children walking past piles of dead bodies near a swimming pool. “Heavily armed sicarios arrived and this is what happened,” said an unidentified man, using a word for hired assassins as he filmed at the resort in a“After the attack, fled, but not before causing damage to the resort store and taking the security cameras and the monitor,” Cortazar’s security department said in a statement.
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