Armed men on Saturday killed a child and six others after storming a resort in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities said, in a region increasingly plagued by drug cartel violence.
Footage widely shared on social media showed the aftermath of the attack in a palm-studded resort in the small town of Cortazar, about 65 km (40 miles) south of the Guanajuato city, Reuters reported.
It was not clear who was behind the shooting that killed the seven-year- old, three men and three women, Cortazar’s local security department said. One person was seriously injured in the La Palma resort.
“Heavily armed sicarios arrived and this is what happened,” said an unidentified man, using a word for hired assassins as he filmed at the resort in a video shared on the internet.
“After the attack, (the attackers) fled, but not before causing dam- age to the resort store and taking the security cameras and the monitor,” Cortazar’s security department said in a statement.