Mexico Massacre: 10 Rally Drivers Gunned Down in Adventure Race

An attack with long weapons against a group of amateur rally drivers in the Mexican town of Ensenada (north, border with the United States) left 10 dead and nine wounded.

The massacre occurred Saturday afternoon when motorists, participating in an adventure race, were parked next to a highway and a group of men got out of a pickup truck and opened fire.

The aggression "left a balance of 9 injured and 10 people dead," the government of Ensenada said in a statement.

Ten people are killed during the Ensenada rally in Baja California, Mexico. Photo: Capture

Videos posted on social media show the bodies of some victims next to ATVs on a dusty sidewalk.

The prosecutor's office of the state of Baja California – to which Ensenada belongs and hard hit by drug violence – announced the formation of a "special investigation group" to identify the murderers and determine the motives for the massacre, the statement said.

Some injured received emergency care from local Red Cross paramedics, who then transferred them to hospitals in the urban center of Ensenada, a municipality of about 440,000 people.

Baja California is one of the states with the most intentional homicides in Mexico, most attributed by the government to wars between organized crime gangs. Between January and April, 721 murders were carried out there, according to official data.

Ten people are killed during the Ensenada rally in Baja California, Mexico. Photo: Capture

That and five other states account for 47.3% of the total homicides registered in the country in the same period (9,912 cases).

Mexico is embroiled in a spiral of violence that has left nearly 400,000 dead and tens of thousands missing since 2006, when the government deployed a controversial anti-drug offensive with U.S. support and the participation of the Mexican armed forces.

With information from AFP

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