In just over a month, the second attack was recorded in a bar in Villahermosa, Tabascowhich left six dead and seven injured; The first was last November 24 at the exclusive nightclub DBarwhere others six people were executed and five more were injured.
At the national level, this is the fourth massacre reported in bars between November and this Saturday, which has left a balance of at least 28 fatalities.
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In the most recent attack, on Saturday night around 9:00 p.m., a group of armed men entered the bar The Blue House and shot indiscriminately against those present, which left six victims and six injured, in the neighborhood Tamulté of the Barrancas.
Five of the victims They died at the scene and the sixth lost her life in the hospital while receiving care.
Until the closing of this edition, Governor Javier May Rodríguez had not commented on the violent events.
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The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Omar García Harfuch, reported that the security cabinet is already in coordination with Tabasco authorities, for the corresponding investigations and to find those responsible.
In relation to the attack that occurred last night in a bar in Villahermosa, Tabasco, I inform that the institutions of the Federal Security Cabinet are in coordination with security and law enforcement authorities of the State, to clarify the facts.
— Omar H Garcia Harfuch (@OHarfuch) January 5, 2025
In addition, they reported that the SSPC made the National Intelligence Center and the Undersecretary of Investigation available to the state government to assist in the development of the investigations.
Likewise, they detailed that the analysis of the video surveillance cameras is carried out and elements of the state and federal authorities deployed coordinated patrols to locate and arrest those responsible; However, until the closing of this edition, no capture was reported.
According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), Tabasco added 651 intentional homicides as of November 2024; This month is the one with the most cases reported with 86 incidents of violence, the agency records.
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OTHER MASSACRES
Last November 9, in the capital of Querétaro, a shooting inside the Los Cantaritos bar, located in the Historic Center, left six people dead and 13 injured.
A day later, in Cuautitlán Izcalli, State of Mexico, the attack was against the Bling Bling club, in which six people died and five were injured.
VIOLENT START OF THE YEAR
The city of Villahermosa began the year with attacks on convenience stores, in one of the stores the attackers shot a customer in the ankle, vehicles were set on fire, the placement of “tire punctures” on the Villahermosa-Nacajuca state highway and shootings in several colonies of the periphery, as a continuation of the violence in the state that maintains a cell of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and a group known as The Sweeperfor control of the square.
In addition, someone attacked the booth of the state Security Secretariat, located in the Tierra Colorada neighborhood, without any injuries being reported.
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