Mexicans are left questioning what occurred to a couple of dozen males who have been seen lined up in opposition to a wall by drug cartel gunmen
SAN JOSE DE GRACIA, Mexico — Mexicans have been left questioning Monday what occurred to a couple of dozen males who have been seen lined up in opposition to a wall by drug cartel gunmen toting assault rifles.
In a video apparently shot by a resident of the city San Jose de Gracia within the western state of Michoacan and posted on social media, bursts of gunfire broke out and smoke lined the scene.
The digicam cuts away, however some assumed all the lads — maybe as many as 17 — died.
However prosecutors stated Monday that they can not say what number of died, as a result of the attackers cleaned up the scene, washed the sidewalk and carted away any our bodies. Investigators discovered solely a bag stuffed with brains and shell casings on the scene.
The assault Sunday occurred exterior a funeral service for the mom of an alleged hitman for the Jalisco cartel. Jalisco has been preventing long-running, bloody turf battles in Michoacan in opposition to the rival Viagras gang, often known as the United Cartels.
The chief prosecutor of Michoacan state stated members of the rival gang went to the funeral on the lookout for the hitman, who authorities recognized solely by his first identify, Alejandro.
State Prosecutor Adrián López Solís stated that the hitman apparently died on the scene and that another our bodies have been piled into pickup vans and carted off by the attackers. Different movies posted on social media confirmed two or three our bodies tossed right into a pickup truck.
López Solís stated the assault occurred only some blocks from the city corridor, the place three native cops have been on obligation. He stated the police neither went to the scene nor sounded an alarm, contending that “they did not have ample pressure” to intervene.
Native police in Mexico are sometimes out-gunned and out-numbered by cartel gunmen.
There have been a string of latest assaults at funerals in Mexico, as cartel gunmen search to exterminate members of rival gangs who attend the companies.
Jorge Luis Anguiano, the mayor whose township consists of San Jose de Gracia, stated that earlier than the assault a big convoy of automobiles was seen coming into from neighboring Jalisco state, house to the cartel of the identical identify. He stated native police did not have the firepower to intervene.
“Seeing the variety of presumed criminals that have been there and given the foundations of engagement, we needed to retreat,” Anguiano stated. “We don’t have the firepower to deal with this sort of conditions.”
“In conditions like this, municipal governments are left uncovered,” he stated.