14 Killed as Gunfight Erupts on Football Field

 

According to the Police,  a row of violence has killed at least 16 people in Mexico’s troubled southern state of Guerrero as shootings erupted at a cockfight which held on a football field.

AFP reports that twelve people were killed, including two minors, and five others were wounded when a gunfight erupted between armed civilians at a cockfight in Cuajinicuilapa on Sunday night.

The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the cause of the gun battle was under investigation.

A senior state police official told AFP that “some of the dead were taken away by their relatives minutes before security forces arrived” while the wounded were taken to a nearby hospital.

Authorities had earlier reported that 10 people were killed and seven wounded.

Cuajinicuilapa, which lies near the state of Oaxaca, is famous for its mixture of cultures derived from descendants of African slaves.

The area is not known for the type of violence that has plagued other parts of Guerrero, such as the Pacific resort of Acapulco or mountain regions of the interior beset by drug cartel turf wars.