Cuernavaca, Morelos: 5 Murdered at the Central Bus Station at 5am

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Armed Commando opened fire at  the bus terminal in Cuernavaca at 5 am this morning, there are 5 murdered. The events occurred in the “Estrella de Oro”  bus terminal, details still emerging, the terminal is closed.

Several armed men stormed this morning at the "Estrella de Oro" bus terminal located in the city of Cuernavaca, Morelos, leaving a balance of at least five people killed and one more injured.

According to the first reports, armed men arrived at the truck station around 05:00 hours, shot at the people and then escaped.

According to unofficial accounts, armed people attacked a group of young people who were going to board one of the buses around 6:00 on Monday.

Several of the victims were in the waiting area if the terminal, at least one shot dead in a bathroom and another just outside the terminal. 

Although the bus terminal is closed, the schedules of the 'Gold Star'  buses were not suspended. Users descend and board the buses outside the terminal, at the nearby gas station.

Elements of the Municipal Police and the Attorney General of the State of Morelos already work in place to collect the first clues and carry out the lifting of the bodies that have not been identified so far.

                         A motive has yet to be determined and victims are not yet identified
Violent weekend in Morelos:
This weekend, Morelos lived a violent day that left at least 17 dead . Most were due to attacks and clashes of rivals in Cuernavaca, Jojutla, Jiutepec and the southern part of the entity.

The dawn of this Sunday there was a shooting in the nightclub "Amazonas", located in the Tarianes neighborhood in the municipality of Jiutepec . In the place armed subjects fired up to 40 times against three people who were at the entrance, also around 5 am Sunday morning.

       Bar "Amazonas"in Jiutepec: the wounded victims, unidentified , were employees of the bar

In Jojutla , two men were shot around 2:00 a.m. on Sunday when they were in a taqueria located on

the Jojutla-Alpuyeca road. The victims of this attack were identified as Luis Angel "N" of 19 years and Alejandro "N" of 71.

On Saturday, the discovery of a body was reported inside the trunk of an abandoned car in the streets of the town of Tepetzingo in the municipality of Emiliano Zapata .

Also in the community of Santa Rosa 30, in the municipality of Tlaltizapán , a male person was killed with a firearm.

Hours earlier, in the Zodiac neighborhood of the city ​​of Cuernavaca , a shootout was reported against two men who were aboard a white Nissan Tsuru vehicle. One of them died inside the car, the other when he arrived at the hospital.

On Friday, two men were killed during a shootout inside a bar located in the town of Tejalpa, in Jiutepec , while on Thursday, August 29, subjects on board two cars ambushed two police officers who were patrolling the area of the Road Pair, also Juitepec . The attackers fired 70 times against the uniformed.

                      Gov Cuauhtémoc Blanco claims that he does not evade his responsibility

On Sunday, the governor of Morelos Cuauhtémoc Blanco , said that the problem of insecurity was inherited from previous administrations , but insisted that his government continues to work in coordination with the federation, to restore peace and tranquility to the Morelenses.

"That is a responsibility (violence) is a burden that we bring from past administrations and we continue to assume our responsibility, I have told people that it is not easy, there are many people involved, who are involved in organized crime" , he pointed out.

Blanco Bravo added that the recent meetings he has held with the National Confederation of Governors (Conago) and with federal authorities have been to address the issue of violence and insecurity. However, it will be until December when more National Guard officers will arrive, to reinforce the local strategy .

"I do not back down, believe me, that we did not evade that responsibility, both the admiral (José Antonio Ortíz Guarneros) and me, to bring peace to the citizens," he said.

The majority of homicides, attacks and confrontations were recorded in Cuernavaca, Jojutla, Jiutepec and the southern zone of the entity.

Elements of the Morelos Police were shot dead in the municipality of Xochitepec.  Five people were arrested, among them a woman.  No details on this incident yet.

On Sunday, in a bar in the Tarianes de Jiutepec neighborhood, armed men shot and killed three people who were at the entrance of the establishment.

In the community of Santa Rosa 30, in the municipality of Tlaltizapán, the murder of a man was reported.

On Saturday morning, the decapitated body of a man was located next to the Tezoyuca-Tepetzingo highway, in the municipality of Emiliano Zapata.

While, in Jiutepec, an employee of a telephone company, was shot dead just when he arrived at his  house in the Progreso neighborhood.

In the municipality of Zacatepec, armed subjects shot at a taqueria in the Galeana community; in the place a man died of gunshot wounds and two more were injured.

In Cuernavaca, two men were killed after being persecuted by several armed subjects in the Zodiac neighborhood.

On Friday night armed men attacked a radio taxi site, located in the Satélite neighborhood, in Cuernavaca; there a driver and the operator of the site were injured, who subsequently died at the IMSS clinic in Plan de Ayala.

Two other men were shot to death outside a house in the Amatitlán neighborhood, also in Cuernavaca.

In Tejalpa, municipality of Jiutepec, one more shooting took place at the La Tequilera bar, where two men died.