Gunmen in a truck pulled up to a bar in central Mexico and opened fire, killing 10 people, authorities said, in an area that had been spared the worst of the country’s raging criminal violence.
Security camera footage published by local media showed the perpetrators leaping from the vehicle and bursting into the venue as terrified customers fled or dived to the floor.
The attack late Saturday on Los Cantaritos bar in Queretaro’s downtown district left 10 people dead and at least seven injured, according to the city’s public security department chief Juan Luis Ferrusca.
“Emergency services arrived at the scene and confirmed that at least four people armed with long weapons had arrived on board a pickup truck,” Ferrusca said in a video on social media.
One suspect was detained and the vehicle used in the attack was found abandoned and set on fire, he said.
