Seven dead including seven-year-old child after gunmen storm Mexican holiday resort fleeing with CCTV footage

SEVEN people including a child have been killed after gunmen stormed a Mexican holiday resort before fleeing with CCTV footage. Another person was seriously injured after the armed men opened fire at the palm-studded resort in the small town of Cortazar in the state of Guanajuato. ReutersAuthorities work at a crime scene where gunmen killed several people including a minor after storming a water park, in Cortazar, Guanajuato state, Mexico April 15, 2023.REUTERS/Sergio Maldonado[/caption] Footage widely shared on social media showed the aftermath of the attack. It was not clear who was behind the shooting that killed the seven-year-old, three men and three women, Cortazar’s local security department said. One person was seriously injured in the La Palma resort. But in recent years rival drug cartels have been waging brutal battles to control territory and trafficking routes through the state. Video taken soon after the attack showed shocked adults and children walking past piles of dead bodies near a swimming pool. “Heavily armed sicarios arrived and this is what happened,” said an unidentified man, using a word for hired assassins as he filmed at the resort in a video shared on the internet. “After the attack, (the attackers) fled, but not before causing damage to the resort store and taking the security cameras and the monitor,” Cortazar’s security department said in a statement.