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Gunmen killed 10 people including children in an attack on a house in a central Mexican city plagued by cartel-related violence, authorities said Wednesday.
Several others were wounded in the shooting on Tuesday night in in Guanajuato state, the municipal government said in a statement.
"According to preliminary data, 10 people lost their lives and several more were injured by firearm projectiles," the local civil security office said in a .
The shooting happened while local residents were celebrating a religious festival, Mexican media reported.
Children were among the victims of the "deplorable" attack, President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters at her morning news conference, adding that authorities had launched an investigation.
She described the attack as a "confrontation" without giving details about the circumstances or the victims.
A video shared online shows the moment when gunfire erupted as people were dancing and socializing, causing panic.
"It is an appalling multiple homicide," Sheinbaum said, according to the Reuters news agency.
According to Mexican media, the shooting happened while local residents were celebrating a religious festival.
Guanajuato is a thriving industrial hub and home to several popular tourist destinations, but it is also due to gang turf wars, according to official homicide statistics.
Criminal violence, most of it linked to drug trafficking, has claimed around 480,000 lives in Mexico since 2006 and left more than 120,000 people missing.
Much of the violence in Guanajuato is linked to conflict between the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the , one of the most powerful in the Latin American nation. The Jalisco cartel is one of several that has been as a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration.
Guanajuato recorded more than 3,000 murders last year, the most of any Mexican state, according to official figures.
The bloodshed has continued this year.
Last month, investigators said they in an abandoned house in Guanajuato. Just days before that, officials said gunmen opened fire and , including children, in the same state, and officers found two banners with messages alluding to the Santa Rosa de Lima gang.
In February, five women and three men were in the street in Guanajuato. The month before that, security forces clashed with gunmen in the state, leaving and three police officers injured.
