Shootings, fires and homicides … a weekend of 12 deaths in Mexico

Five people were killed in a shooting in Cancun, five others in the center of the country and two others were burnt in a vehicle south of Mexico City, in a violent start to the weekend in different parts of the country.

In Cancun, southeast Mexico, on Friday night, five people were killed, including a police officer, and three others were injured when people entered a restaurant and attacked a group of policemen. I found it inside.

According to a statement by the state government of Quintana Roo, a ministerial police officer was killed, another wounded and "there are no tourists or strangers among the wounded or the deceased ".

Although in the beginning it was thought that the shooting took place at the restaurant, the prosecutor's office said in a press release Friday at midnight that criminal experts and police officers were working in "an annex. local". of a restaurant "where a group of armed people came in" opening fire on the assistants. "This department took the number of wounded to three.

According to the prosecutor's office, the first clues are that the four civilians killed were working on the premises.

The shooting site is located on the shore of the sea, on the road to Puerto Juarez that leads to Punta Sam, where is the ferry that crosses to Isla Mujeres.

The event takes place after months of increasing violence in the region because different organized crime groups are fighting for control of drug sales.

On Saturday, the state prosecutor's office in Puebla informed through its official Twitter account the start of an investigation into the killing of five people who were apparently municipal policemen from the city of Naupan. According to the prosecution, they were dressed in civilian clothes and their bodies were in a private vehicle left on the road. No other details of the incident have been offered.

And south of Mexico City, in Xochimilco, two men were found burnt inside a car early Saturday, according to the capital's prosecutor's office.

In a statement, this department notes that the neighbors helped to extinguish the fire and that, with the intervention of firefighters, the victims were in the trunk of the vehicle.