Gunmen kill 7, together with baby, at resort swimming pool in Mexico

At the very least seven individuals had been killed, together with a 7-year-old baby, when a gaggle of gunmen stormed a resort teeming with vacationers in central Mexico on Saturday.

An eighth particular person was severely injured within the mid-afternoon capturing — which took the lives of three ladies, three males and a baby — close to the pool on the La Palma resort in Cortazar, a small city south of the town of Guanajuato.

Alarming video footage taken quickly after the assault confirmed shocked adults and youngsters strolling lifeless our bodies piled up close to the pool.

The suspects started opening fireplace indiscriminately 4:30 p.m., earlier than destroying the resort spa retailer and taking the safety cameras that captured the horrifying mass homicide, officers mentioned.

Mexican officers had been utilizing a helicopter to seek for the attackers after the fled the scene on Saturday.

It was not instantly clear who was behind the capturing, although in recent times rival drug cartels have gotten into skirmishes within the state.

Authorities haven’t shared a doable motive for the assault.

Movies shared on social media additionally confirmed devastated vacationers sporting bathing fits whereas hugging their kids.

“Closely armed sicarios arrived and that is what occurred,” mentioned an unidentified man, utilizing a phrase for employed assassins as he filmed on the resort in a video shared on the web.

“After the assault, (the attackers) fled, however not earlier than inflicting injury to the resort retailer and taking the safety cameras and the monitor,” Cortazar’s safety division mentioned in a press release.

No arrests have been made and authorities are investigating a doable motive for the assault.

With Submit wires