CULIACAN, Mexico – Gunmen killed six people at a bar Saturday in the northern state of Sinaloa, a drug-violence hotspot, state prosecutors said.
At least three gunmen walked into Las Herraduras bar in the resort city of Mazatlan early Saturday and opened fire, killing a customer and two waiters, said Martin Gatelum, spokesman for the Sinaloa state prosecutor’s office.
A taxi driver and a night watchman were killed ouside the bar, where the assailants also shot to death a hostage who had led them to the bar, Gatelum said.
Sinaloa, Mexico’s drug-smuggling heartland, is the birthplace of the leaders of four of the six major cartels.
In the border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities on Saturday announced the arrest of a second suspect in last week’s massacre of 15 people, many of them teenagers with no known criminal ties.