Six people and a kid were slain by gunmen who invaded a water park in central Mexico on Saturday, causing fear among the crowd, according to local officials.
When the police came, they discovered three dead ladies, three dead males, a youngster aged 7, and one critically injured person “the municipality of Cortazar, where the assault occurred, issued a statement.
Recent years have witnessed an increase in drug-related violence in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato and its surroundings.
To carry out the assault, the gunmen came to the La Palma swimming resort at 4:30 pm local time (2230 GMT) “The declaration said.
Attackers moved immediately in front of a crowd of people, fired fire, and then pulled out security cameras before fleeing, according to investigators.
The victims were shown in a video recorded at the scene and broadcast on the local news website Debate Noticias collapsing on the floor or on the chairs they were seated in amid what seemed to be gunshot smoke.
Others can be seen scurrying for shelter from the shooting in the video as well.
One of the major television networks in Mexico, TV Azteca, has a video from the incident on its website, showing panicked parents and children still wearing swimsuit, including pool floats, on the scene after the shooting.
On the last day of the spring break from school, the assault took place.
Military and state police descended into the resort, which is next to a university campus, after the assault.
Due to the conflict between the fuel-theft and drug-trafficking-focused Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Santa Rosa de Lima criminal gang, Guanajuato, a prosperous industrial state in Mexico, has become one of the most dangerous.
Since the government controversially sent the army to battle drug cartels in 2006, Mexico has recorded more than 350,000 homicides, the most of which have been attributed to criminal groups.