At least eleven people, including two children, have been killed in two armed attacks in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.
Armed men opened fire on a group of people in a house in Silao Township, killing three men, two women and a child, prosecutors said on Sunday.
According to local media reports, the attack took place during a children's birthday party on Saturday evening.
Later that evening, armed men killed five members of the same family in the Apaseo el Grande community, including a 14-year-old girl, according to prosecutors.
An eight-month-old baby suffered a gunshot wound on the arm.
Violence in the central state of Guanajuato has risen sharply in recent years.
The two drug cartels Santa Rosa de Lima and Jalisco Nueva Generación are fighting for control of the lucrative drug trade and the market for stolen fuels.
In other parts of the country, too, there are repeated violent attacks.
Most recently, a shootout between rival gangs on a beach near Cancun terrified tourists in the popular Mexican holiday region.
There was a clash between hostile groups of drug traffickers in Puerto Morelos, said the Attorney General of the state of Quintana Roo.
Hundreds of thousands of victims in the drug war
At the end of October, a German tourist died when she got caught between the front lines in a shooting in a bar in the holiday resort of Tulum.
Another woman from India was also killed.
The place is south of Cancun on the Caribbean coast.
In Mexico, where around 126 million people live, an average of more than 80 murders a day are registered according to the latest figures - in Germany there were 245 in the entire past year. Most of the crimes are never resolved.
The government has been using federal troops to fight the cartels since 2006, and more than 300,000 people have been killed since then.
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