bloody massacre on Sunday night in Las Tinajas in the Mexican state of Michoacan.Seventeen men and three women were shot dead after a team of gunmen wearing military uniforms burst into the venue just after 10.30pm on Sunday night and opened fire on the crowd with assault rifles.Four other people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds.More than a hundred spent 7.62-calibre shell casings were gathered at the scene by investigators."It was a massacre of one group by another," Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a news conference.Cockfighting, despite being illegal, is a hugely popular pastime in Mexico, with clandestine meetings drawing large numbers of spectators.
The area has been a battleground between rival drugs cartels, with the the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) being challenged by several smaller gangs for control of the local cocaine trade.
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