Gunmen kill nine mourners during wake in Mexico
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JanJanuary 2021 at 5:54am
Bloodstains and bullet holes mark the front of a home where mourners had gathered to remember a young man.
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Gunmen have opened fire during a wake in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, killing nine people and injuring another.
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An expert said it appeared to be an attack by the Jalisco New Generation cartel against the dead man's family
The area is at the centre of the bloody turf war between drug cartels acting through local gangs
The conflict has made Guanajuato Mexico's deadliest state