Police and security forces have launched a hunt to find the gunmen.In a statement, the local authorities said: “The Secretariat for Citizen Security condemns any action that violates social peace and regrets the death of civilians.”The massacre is the latest to hit Guanajuato State, which is in the middle of a turf war between rival cartels, according to the New York Times.The violence in the area is said to stem from a conflict between the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel and Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG), which is larger and more powerful.The Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel's leader José Antonio Yépez El Marro was arrested last year, but it has not stopped the bloodshed.
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