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A woman and three men were killed. bullets this Wednesday afternoon in the town of Tecamachalcoin the state of Puebla.

According to initial information, the armed attack took place at the corner of 2 Sur and 17 Oriente streets, in the San Nicolas districtwhen certain subjectsThey approached in a truck and started shooting at them.

Shopkeepers and passers-by panicked. hearing the multiple explosions. After the attackers fled, onlookers approached the bodies lying on the asphalt, bloody, next to their motorcycles.

For their part, the neighbors reported the incident to the emergency number, then elements of the municipal police and paramedics arrived on the scene, where they found three men without vital signs. While the woman was seriously injured, for which she was transferred to a nearby hospital; however, he also died once he arrived at the hospital.

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(Photo: Twitter/soyluisgabriel1)

It turned out that those executed were of Colombian origin and that the motive for the attack was a settling of scores between a group of pawnbrokers. So far, the identity of the murderers is unknown.

The office of the Attorney General of the State of Puebla (FGE) indicated that an investigation into the facts had been opened.

In this regard, the Governor Sergio Salomón Cespedes Pilgrimregretted the facts and said that the authorities would take care of clarifying the crime.

However, he also decided that his state administration would not assume the security of municipalities, mainly Tecamachalco, which is seen as a red light for the crime wave, linked to drug retail gangs and illegal loan groups. known as gota a gota. .

“It must be the municipal presidents who assume the security of their own municipalities and assume the responsibility that they have”

Residents of the town claim that the lenders constantly threatened their customers. They even forced them to receive cash loans without needing them, arguing that they had contacts with suspected criminals.

On the night of November 19, 2021, three members of the State Investigation Agency They were killed in downtown Tecamachalco during a clash with municipal police.

Thirteen uniformed municipal officers were arrested for these events, although seven were released, including a few because the judge ruled their arrest illegal.

More information in development…

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