At least 14 killed in Mexico bar attack

People remain in the street outside the Blue Parrot nightclub as firefighters and police agents patrol the area in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo state, Mexico where 5 people were killed, three of them foreigners, during a music festival on January 16, 2017. A shooting erupted at an electronic music festival in the Mexican resort of Playa del Carmen early Monday, leaving at least five people dead and sparking a stampede, the mayor said. Fifteen people were injured, some in the stampede, after at least one shooter opened fire before dawn at the Blue Parrot nightclub during the BPM festival. / AFP PHOTO / VICTOR VARGAS / MAXIMUM QUALITY AVAILABLE
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At least 14 killed in Mexico bar attack
 
Mexico City: At least 14 people were killed and several others injured in a bar attack in central Mexico, media reported on Saturday.

The attack was carried out by a group of armed men at a nightclub named “La Playa” in the early hours of Saturday in Salamanca, Guanajuato state, said the reports, Xinhua news agency reported.

Local media earlier reported that at least 13 people were killed at the scene, between four and seven injured people were rushed to nearby hospitals, and one of them died due to serious wounds.

The nightclub is located in the northwestern part of Salamanca, a city affected by disputes between criminal gangs seeking control of the fuel theft from a refinery the state-owned oil company Pemex established in the city.

According to local media, the police found about 70 bullet casings fired by the attackers who later escaped in a van.

Until Saturday morning, the security agencies of Guanajuato had not issued any official information about the incident.


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