MEXICO CITY (AP) — Survivors of a Sunday massacre in central Mexico told investigators that a group of people who turned away from a holiday party later returned with gunmen who killed 11 people and wounded 14, authorities said Tuesday with.
Navigio Agustín Gallardo Romero, a prosecutor in Guanajuato state, said nine men and two women were killed. The public prosecutor's office had reduced the death toll from 12 to 11 on Monday evening, saying that there had been confusion with a victim from another case in the hospital.
Authorities recovered grenades from seven different weapons at the scene, Gallardo said in a recorded video message. He said investigators were focusing on a group operating in the area, without providing further details.
Families carried the coffins of some victims through the streets of Salvatierra on Tuesday.
Guanajuato has been the scene of bloody turf wars between the Jalisco cartel and local gangs backed by the Sinaloa cartel. The state has long recorded the highest number of homicides in Mexico.
On Monday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for the resignation of Guanajuato's prosecutor.
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