メキシコ中部で武装集団がバーを銃撃、１０人死亡

【メキシコ市ＡＦＰ＝時事】メキシコ中部ケレタロ州で９日、武装集団がバーに押し入り、１０人を射殺した。暴力事件が絶えない同国にあって同州は比較的治安の良い場所だけに、地元には動揺が広がっている。（写真はメキシコ中部ケレタロ市のバーの外で警備に当たるメキシコ陸軍兵士と治安部隊）
　マウリシオ・クリ州知事によると、９日夜、州都ケレタロ市の中心部にあるバー「ロス・カンタリトス」で銃撃があり、１０人が死亡。このほか１３人が負傷し、うち２人は重傷だという。
　防犯カメラの映像には、数人の武装した男がトラックで乗り付け、おびえた客らが逃げたり床に伏せたりする中、店内に向かって銃を乱射する様子が映っていた。
　ケレタロ市公安部長によると、容疑者１人が拘束された。襲撃に使用されたトラックは放置され、放火されていたという。
　ケレタロ州検察庁は、死者の中には女性３人が含まれていると述べた。
　ケレタロ市は、麻薬カルテル絡みの暴力がまん延しているメキシコの中で、比較的安全な都市とされる。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/11/11-18:17）

Gunmen burst into a bar in central Mexico and opened fire, killing 10 people and sowing panic in an area that had been spared the worst of the country's raging criminal violence.
Security camera footage showed several armed men pulling up in a truck and spraying bullets inside the venue as terrified customers fled or dived to the floor.
The attack late Saturday on Los Cantaritos bar in Queretaro's downtown district left 10 people dead and 13 injured, two of them critically, according to state governor Mauricio Kuri.
One suspect was detained and the vehicle used in the attack was found abandoned and set on fire, the city's public security department chief Juan Luis Ferrusca said.
The dead included three women, according to the Queretaro state prosecutor's office, which said forensic experts were examining the scene of the attack and the truck.
Queretaro, the capital of Queretaro state, is considered one of the safer cities in Mexico, which has been plagued by years of drug cartel-related violence.
We cannot allow this, Kuri said in a video posted on social media.
In Queretaro, we will continue to defend our quality of life, he said, adding: We will not allow ourselves to be contaminated by what's happening in other parts of the republic.
Queretaro, a city known more for its colonial architecture than for its crime, is around 200 kilometers (120 miles) northwest of Mexico City.
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For more than a year there has been a gradual increase in the number of murders in Queretaro, where several criminal groups operate, according to security expert David Saucedo.
He said Saturday's attack was similar to a pattern of violence in neighboring Guanajuato -- Mexico's most violent state, according to official homicide statistics.
There had been attacks on bars and restaurants either to collect protection money or because these spaces sell drugs from a rival group, Saucedo told broadcaster Grupo Formula.
Across Mexico, spiraling violence, much of it linked to drug trafficking and gangs, has seen more than 450,000 people murdered since 2006.
Tackling the murders and kidnappings that are a daily occurrence is among the major challenges facing President Claudia Sheinbaum.
The former Mexico City mayor, who became the country's first woman president on October 1, has ruled out declaring war on drug cartels.
Instead she has pledged to continue her predecessor's strategy of using social policy to tackle crime at its roots, while also making better use of intelligence.
The northwestern cartel stronghold of Sinaloa has seen a surge in violence since the July arrest of drug lord Ismael Zambada in the United States unleashed a wave of gang infighting.
There has also been a spike in bloodshed in the southern state of Guerrero, the scene of long-running gang turf wars.