Play
Baby shot dead in attack that killed six members of the same family
Six people from the same family have been killed by armed men in a rural community on the outskirts of Acapulco, authorities in Mexico said.
Guerrero state security spokesman Roberto Alvarez Heredia said the victims in San Pedro Cacahuatepec include three women, a four-month-old baby and a 17-year-old boy.
Three children were also wounded when the gunmen opened fire on Friday on their homes.
It is an area where the federal government wants to build a dam, but the territory is disputed between two community defence groups.
The vigilante-style police groups armed themselves in 2013 and 2014 to fight drug cartels.
Most Watched
Play
Play
Play
Play
Play
Latest Latin America
- ‘Space-age’ surgery: Conjoined twins with fused brains separated in 27-hour operation
- 27 hours later in the operating theatre: Conjoined twins with fused brains successfully separated in Brazil
- Woman and children freed by police in Brazil after being held captive by husband and father for 17 years
- Bloodhound finds drug lord who tortured and killed US agent hiding in bushes
- Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador criticised for violent crime policy of ‘hugs not bullets’
Most Read
- ‘Space-age’ surgery: Conjoined twins with fused brains separated in 27-hour operation
- Woman and children freed by police in Brazil after being held captive by husband and father for 17 years
- Mexico identifies submerged wreck of Mayan slave ship
- 27 hours later in the operating theatre: Conjoined twins with fused brains successfully separated in Brazil
- British journalist died in Amazon ambush ‘meant for his colleague’, says Brazilian vice-president
Latest
- Oisin Healy’s two goals helps North Kerry ease into county minor final at Kenmare Shamrock’s expense
- Ireland beaten by Afghanistan as T20 series goes down to final match on Wednesday
- Fancy owning a castle? Clonony Castle in Co Offaly is up for grabs
- Report on An Bord Pleanála sent to gardaí and DPP to consider criminal proceedings
- New Ross rower Amy is making a big splash