Guanajuato: 58 killed in 6 days

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat from Super Channel 12 and Milenio

Most of the victims were killed by armed commandos. 4 minors included

León, Gto.-  In Guanajuato, during the last five days of the month of August, 58 intentional homicides were recorded in various registered events, mostly in municipalities in the south of the state.

Just on Monday there were 11 executions of people and on Tuesday began the 72 most critical hours, which left a total of 42 murders. Most of these killings  were the result of armed attacks that witnesses said were led by armed groups aboard trucks or vehicles, who chased and killed their victims.

Among those killed were four minors, victims of attacks: one of 11 year old,  who was shot and killed with his father and another person, while they were tilling the land in an ejido of Pueblo Nuevo; another of 14 and one of 17, who were assaulted by gunmen in Apaseo el Alto, where four other people died, and another  17 year old, who together with his brother, were gunned down in a home in Acambaro. Their own mother reported the death of their children.

Seven were these people killed were women, one of them, Viviana "N", who last Tuesday was in the bus stop of the colony Cerrito de Jerez, Leon, and was shot, during a confrontation between armed individuals who were still inside two vehicles.

The victims also include a traumatologist and professor at the University of Guanajuato (UG), Gerardo Gabriel Macías, who was killed on Wednesday afternoon in the colony of Urbivalle del Roble in León, as well as the director of Social Development and elected councilor of the municipality of Cortazar, Agustín Banda.

Last Friday, the day closed with five murders, four deceased men  whose bodies were abandoned in buildings or roads in Valle de Santiago, León, Tarimoro and Acámbaro.

This Saturday, on a dirt road near the Salvatierra-Yuriria highway, the body of a man was found who was shot to death..