A group of armed men broke into the wake of a young man, in the Antonio Barona neighborhood, in Cuernavaca, Morelos, and shot the mourners. Four youths died at the scene and one more died when he was taken to a hospital, while about eight youths are reported with gunshot wounds.
Preliminary data refer that the boys were watching over their friend who died in a motorcycle accident, when the gunmen arrived and shot at the mourners who were on Lázaro Cárdenas street in the popular neighborhood, considered by the authorities as an area of high crime incidence .
According to the latest reports, the death toll has risen to eight, without ruling out the increase in deaths, taking into account the delicate state of health of the injured.
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In the middle of last August another Armed group He killed six young men who were drinking alcohol in the streets of the Flores Magón neighborhood, located in the same industrial park as the Antonio Barona.
In February of this year, the crime of five young people was also recorded, but in the municipality of Emiliano Zapata and, two months later, an armed group again murdered four young people in the San Juanito neighborhood when they returned from selling clothes in a flea market.
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