GUNMEN have killed nine people including a mayor and injured at least 20 more in a massacre, it has been reported.
Cartel members opened fire in an official building and launched projectiles at residents in the streets and their homes for the attack.
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The mayor of San Miguel Totolapan, who was killed in the attack, pictured outside the City Hall[/caption]
The outside of the building has been covered in bullet holes and other images, which we are not publishing, showed bloodied victims.
Seven police officers were among the dead today in San Miguel Totolapan, Mexico.
Party of the Democratic Union (PRD) mayor Conrado Mendoza Almeda and his dad and former mayor Juan Mendoza were executed too.
Panicked residents hid in their homes and the army was deployed to the streets, international media reported.
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The PRD condemned the attack this evening, calling it cowardly.
It added on social media: “We demand justice. Enough of violence and impunity.”
Armed group Los Tequileros has claimed responsibility. It was previously thought the group had stopped operating.
The gang was created in around 2012 by former cohorts of drug cartels the Knights Templar and La Familia.
They carried out kidnappings in Guerrero, Mexico, for several months in 2016, including one where armed men took ten people.
In December that year armed locals captured the mum and friends of the group’s chief in retaliation.
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Mexico has long been blighted by shootings, with victims this year including several tourists and a Brit.
And in 2021, the bodies of nine men were found hanging from an underpass amidst a battle for control between the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels, in the Zacatecas region
