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NY Post
New York Post
16 Apr 2023


NextImg:Gunmen kill 7, including a child, at resort swimming pool in Mexico

At least seven people were killed, including a 7-year-old child, when a group of gunmen stormed a resort teeming with vacationers in central Mexico on Saturday.

An eighth person was seriously injured in the mid-afternoon shooting — which took the lives of three women, three men and a child — near the pool at the La Palma resort in Cortazar, a small town south of the city of Guanajuato.

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Alarming video footage taken soon after the assault showed stunned adults and children walking dead bodies piled up near the pool.

The suspects began opening fire indiscriminately 4:30 p.m., before destroying the resort spa store and taking the security cameras that captured the horrifying mass murder, officials said.

Mexican officials were using a helicopter to search for the attackers after the fled the scene on Saturday.

Seven people, including a child, were killed in the shooting and an eighth was seriously injured.
REUTERS

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It was not immediately clear who was behind the shooting, though in recent years rival drug cartels have gotten into skirmishes in the state. Authorities have not shared a possible motive for the attack.

Videos shared on social media also showed devastated vacationers wearing bathing suits while hugging their children.

Mexican officials were using a helicopter to search for the attackers on Saturday.

Mexican officials were using a helicopter to search for the attackers on Saturday.
REUTERS

“Heavily armed sicarios arrived and this is what happened,” said an unidentified man, using a word for hired assassins as he filmed at the resort in a video shared on the internet.

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“After the attack, (the attackers) fled, but not before causing damage to the resort store and taking the security cameras and the monitor,” Cortazar’s security department said in a statement.

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No arrests have been made in connection to the shooting.
REUTERS

No arrests have been made and authorities are investigating a possible motive for the attack.

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With Post wires.