GUADALAJARA: Local officials said on Saturday that a shooting attack left six persons dead in a bar in the western Mexican state of Jalisco.
Six Killed in Mexico
The incident occurred late Friday in the town of Teocaltiche on the occasion of the celebrations of the anniversary of Mexican independence, the local officials said in a statement. Several people were attacked in the bar in Western Mexico, the statement maintained. A regional prosecutor on Saturday confirmed that six people were killed in the deadly shooting.
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The state of Jalisco has been shaken by extreme violence linked to the Jalisco New Generation cartel, one of the key criminal outfits in the country. Earlier, two police officials were killed in another shooting in Teocaltiche.
Since the government of Mexico in late 2006 started a military-backed anti-drug operation, over 340,000 killings and about 100,000 disappearances have been reported, most of them linked to criminal groups in the region.
