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12 shot dead, 3 injured in Mexico bar attack

New Delhi: As many as twelve people, including six women and six men, were killed and three others were injured after unidentified gunmen opened fire at a bar in Mexico’s Irapuato on Saturday evening. Gunshots were reported at the bar in the city of Irapuato in the central state of Guanajuato at close to 8 […]

New Delhi: As many as twelve people, including six women and six men, were killed and three others were injured after unidentified gunmen opened fire at a bar in Mexico’s Irapuato on Saturday evening.

Gunshots were reported at the bar in the city of Irapuato in the central state of Guanajuato at close to 8 pm local time Saturday, the city’s Secretary of Citizen Safety said in a statement.

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Paramedics confirmed the deaths of six men and six women after arriving on scene, according to the statement. It is unclear who the victims are and how many gunmen were involved in the shooting.

This is the second mass shooting in the state of Guanajuato in less than a month. The motive behind the shooting was not immediately clear.

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A search operation for the attackers is underway with support from Guanajuato’s Secretary for Public Safety as well as the state’s prosecutor general’s office, the Secretary of National Defense, and the National Guard.

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Guanajuato, a major manufacturing hub and production site for many of the world’s top carmakers, has been convulsed in recent years by brutal turf wars between rival drug gangs, reports Reuters.

Earlier in September, gunmen shot dead ten people at a bar in the Guanajuato town of Tarimoro, about 60 miles (96 km) southeast of Irapuato.

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