Brian McDonald
A family of six, including three children, was killed on Friday by gunmen in the state of Chiapas, on the border with southern Mexico, in a city marked by violence from militias backed by cartels.
Julio Pérez, mayor of the city of Pantelho in Chiapas, said the killings took place there on Friday and called it “a massacre.” Two warring militia groups, suspected of being backed by drug cartels, fight for control of the city.
In a brief declarationThe state prosecutor’s office said three suspects were arrested, but neither the victims nor those detained were identified.
It was the latest in a series of mass murders in which hitmen wiped out entire families in Mexico.
On Sunday, armed men broke into a house in the north-central state of Guanajuato and killed four women and two children.
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Both Chiapas, which borders Guatemala, and Guanajuato have been hit by bloody gang turf battles in recent years.
Local media reported that the armed men entered the house in the city of León, Guanajuato, looking for a male family member. When they discovered that he had already fled, they killed the women and children.
The Guanajuato murders drew special attention because surveillance camera footage showed five National Guard officers entering the house five minutes before the murders occurred. They left the house carrying a large black plastic bag shortly before the killers arrived.
On Friday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said five quasi-military National Guard officers had been detained for violations of military discipline and were in Defense Department custody, but he declined to give further details about the case.
Chiapas, where the family was killed on Friday, has been plagued by recent violence, especially in the weeks leading up to the June 2 presidential election.
Last month, authorities said two attacks on mayoral candidates in Mexico’s elections left nine people dead in Chiapas. A few days before that, six people, including a minor candidate and mayor Lucero Lopez, were killed in an ambush after a campaign rally in Chiapas. Around the same time, 11 people were killed in mass shootings in a village in the municipality of Chicomuselo, Chiapas.
The situation in Chiapas deteriorated due to the war between the Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa Cartels in a region known as La Frailesca, which includes Villa Corzo and La Concordia.
Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman to win the country’s presidency earlier this month. Two female politicians have already been killed in Mexico since Sheinbaum’s historic election.
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