Thirteen people, including a minor, were killed Friday in Mexico during an attack by a group of armed men during a party in the eastern state of Veracruz, the public security secretariat said in a statement. of this State. The attack took place in the evening during a family rally in Minatitlan "when individuals arrived at the scene asking for a person known as 'El Beky'", the owner of a local bar, the statement said. The unknown "opened fire, as seven men, five women and a minor," the statement said, adding that three men and one woman were injured.
Clashes for the control of the drug routes. Located along the Gulf of Mexico, the state of Veracruz is plagued by the violence of drug cartels, with the highest rate of missing persons. The cartel of Zetas and that of Jalisco Nueva Generacion fight violently for the control of the drug routes, as well as for the fuel traffic.
More than 40,000 people are currently missing in Mexico, hit by a wave of drug-related violence, especially since then-president Felipe Calderon launched the armed forces in 2006 in a massive anti-trafficking operation. drug traffickers. Since then, some 250,000 people have been murdered in Mexico, according to official figures that do not specify how many of them have been victims of clashes between mafias.