MEXICO CITY – Eleven people, eight of them women, were killed in simultaneous attacks on two bars in north-central Mexico, authorities said on Tuesday.
Handwritten signs left at the scene of the killings suggest that the attacks were part of a rivalry between two drug cartels fighting for control of Guanajuato state for several years.
Celaya city police said the attacks took place on Monday afternoon at two bars on the same street. They said 10 of the victims died at the scene, and another was pronounced dead at a hospital later.
Police confirmed that messages were left at the scene, but did not confirm what they said. But photos posted on social media suggested the killers were from the Santa Rosa de Lima gang.
The messages appeared to accuse the bar owners of supporting Jalisco’s rival cartel.
The photos showed women – it was not clear if they were bar employees or customers – crammed into puddles of blood between tables. Part of a bar also appeared to have been partially burned.
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