MEXICO CITY (AP) — Six people, including three children, were killed in an armed attack on a soccer field in central Mexico, state authorities announced Monday.
The attack occurred on Sunday night in the central municipality of Atotonilco de Tula, Hidalgo state, where several armed men showed up at the town’s sports field and, after demanding the removal of the minors, began shooting at all the people who were at the scene, the director of the municipal police, Alejandro Rosales, told the press.
The bodies of two people were located on the soccer field and another four, including three children, died in health centers as a result of gunshot wounds.
Rosales indicated that the police forces have not yet been able to identify the perpetrators of the attack because the witnesses are very afraid and have not wanted to provide information about what happened on the sports field.
A similar incident occurred last September in the central state of Morelos where several armed individuals, traveling in two vehicles, shot at a group of people who were at the sports center after a soccer match. Four people were killed in the attack, including a former mayor, and eight others were injured, according to authorities.
