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Three shot dead in popular Mexico City tourist plaza
MEXICO CITY, Sept 15, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Gunmen dressed as mariachi musicians
killed three people and wounded seven others in a square in downtown Mexico
City popular with foreign tourists, police said.
The three assailants carried out the shootings shortly before 10pm on
Friday (0300 GMT Saturday) in the busy Plaza Garibaldi, police said.
Neither the motive for neither the attack nor the identities of the gunmen
were known, but the area is located near the Tepito neighborhood, where a
cartel operates that is considered the largest criminal organization in the
capital.
Mexico has been hit by a wave of violence since deploying the army to
fight the country’s powerful drug cartels in 2006.
Since then, more than 200,000 people have been murdered, including a
record 28,702 last year.
Another 37,000 people are reported as missing.
BSS/AFP/IJ/1410 hrs