• USA A 6-year-old boy opens fire in a school and seriously injures a teacher

A 10-year-old boy

shot his classmate

, a year older, in the head for beating him in a video game, in an impoverished region of the state of

Veracruz,

eastern

Mexico,

authorities said.

The incident occurred

on Sunday in a store

that rents consoles and video games when the minor assailant was upset because another boy identified as

Samuel,

11, won a game, so he went home,

took a gun from his relatives. and returned to the premises

to shoot him.

"All I ask is that you help me do justice, because my son died because of the parents of that child who killed my son, because it is a lack of responsibility to leave a gun on the table as if they were things to eat" ,

Leticia, the mother of the deceased child

, told the press

during the funeral on Tuesday.

The offending child and his family fled.

The governor of Veracruz,

Cuitláhuac García,

described as "sad" the fact that a child has access to a weapon.

"He has to act in accordance with his rights to see the responsibilities for the weapon, because without a doubt there are responsibilities," he said Monday.

At the beginning of January, in the United States, a six-year-old boy shot his teacher at a school in the state of

Virginia,

seriously wounding her.

Veracruz is one of the most violent states in Mexico due to

disputes between drug traffickers and the latter with security forces.

Since 2006,

when then-President

Felipe Calderón

launched an anti-drug offensive, there have been some

340,000 murders

and tens of thousands of disappearances, most attributed to organized crime.

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