Gunmen opened fire on customers at a bar in Mexico, killing 5 and wounding 7

A shooting at a bar in southeastern Mexico left five people dead and seven wounded, authorities said Sunday, the latest in a series of similar attacks in the violence-plagued country.

A search was made for those who committed the incident on Saturday night in the city of Villahermosa, in the province of Tabasco, the secretary of security and public defense said in a statement.

“Five people died and seven were injured,” he said.

“The video surveillance cameras are being analyzed and the federal authorities and the authorities have sent joint patrols to find and arrest those involved,” he said.

According to local media, unknown gunmen entered the La Casita Azul bar and opened fire on the customers, bloodied corpses littered the floor.

Tabasco, home to oil production facilities, has seen an increase in violent crime in recent months. Just last month, seven prisoners were killed in the Tabasco prison riot.

In November, six people were killed and 10 were injured in another armed attack on a bar in Villahermosa.

That incident happened two weeks ago after an attack in a bar he left 10 dead in the city of Queretaro, a central region that has so far been immune to organized crime-related violence.

The same weekend, six people were killed in a shooting at a bar in the Mexico City area.

In December, eight people were killed after gunmen stood at a roadside stand in north-central Mexico and opened fire on customers and bystanders.

Drug-related violence has killed more than 450,000 people in Mexico since the government sent in troops to fight human trafficking in 2006, according to official figures.

Gang-related violence has continued unabated after Mexico’s new president Claudia Sheinbaum He started working on October 1.

He denied that war would be declared against corporations and instead proposed a strategy he described as based on intelligence gathering to reduce their operational capabilities.

Sheinbaum also wants to continue his predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s policy of attacking crime at its roots, with investments in public spending and crime prevention.