At least 19 people were killed in a shooting Sunday night in Mexico’s Michoacan state, the latest in a string of mass killings as cartels war over territory in various parts of the country.
The state prosecutor’s office said it found 16 men and three women dead at a clandestine cockfight in the town of Las Tinajas and is investigating the shooting.
While overall murder rates have fallen in Mexico in recent months — homicides dropped 14.2% in February compared the same month in 2021 — pitched battles among cartels in states like Michoacan and Guanajuato have led to attacks with mass casualties. At the beginning of March, the government confirmed another shooting in Michoacan that left as many as 17 people dead.
