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Morelia – Six people were murdered by suspected hitmen on Sunday in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, which has faced a wave of violence over disputes between drug cartels.
The state Attorney General’s Office (FGE) specified in a statement that the six crimes took place in Uruapan, Michoacan’s second most economically important city, where 13 violent murders were reported in the first seven days of July, linked to drug gangs.
The first killing on Sunday occurred at around 00:30 (06:30 GMT) in the Santa Rosa community, when the killer shot and killed a truck driver.
Also in the early morning, armed men executed two men and a woman on the Eastern Bypass, where they had left a paper card, alleging that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) was responsible for the multiple crimes.
Meanwhile, at 08:00 (14:00 GMT), gunmen murdered a man and left his body on a bench in the main square of the town of Zupimito, with the victim also leaving an alleged “drug message”.
An hour later, the killer murdered another man and left his body under a pedestrian bridge on the national highway connecting Uruapan to the city of Paracho, where authorities found another “drug message.”
The prosecutor’s office reported that there are no detainees in all cases, except for six victims whose identities are unknown, so they will remain with the Forensic Medical Service (SEMEFO).
Additionally, CJNG members allegedly placed a tarp with a “drug message” on a pedestrian bridge on Avenida Industrial that connects Uruapan to the Morelia-Lazaro Cárdenas federal highway, threatening the rival group.
Uruapan is the second most economically important city in Michoacan state, after the capital, Morelia, where criminal organizations calling themselves CJNG, Los Caballeros Templarios, Los Viagras, Blancos de Troya and Pueblos Unidos operate.
In the last minutes of Saturday and the first minutes of Sunday, the army killed seven CJNG killers in a confrontation in the city of Tangancícuaro, 90 kilometers from Uruapan.
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