By: Jaime Luis Brito | Translated
by Valor for Borderland Beat
Cuernavaca, Morelos. — Two
families were shot in the municipalities of Cuernavaca and Jiutepec, leaving
five people dead.
In the first instance, three members of a
family, among them a 10 year old girl, were killed by gunfire this past Sunday
(Feb. 19) morning in the neighborhood Lomas de Ahuatlán, located north of
Cuernavaca.
Two of the victims, a
woman and a ten year old girl, were found aboard a gray Nissan Tsuru, with
plates from Mexico City. While the third
victim, a man, was lying outside the vehicle, on the street, Santa Ana de
Amanalco.
Police forces belonging
to the State Commission of Security, Attorney General of Justice, and other
organizations arrived at the scene in order to carry out investigations and to
remove the bodies.
At about the same time,
a group of armed men attacked several people in a cemetery located in the Jardín
Juárez neighborhood in Jiutepec, where at least two of them died: a man at the
scene and a woman on the way to the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) hospital.
According to the police
reports, a man, a 9 and a 10 year old minor, and two women, were outside a
cemetery on Jesús Achavitia Street when a white Suburban attacked them.
The man, who was in a metropolitan
taxi, died at the scene. Meanwhile, the
other victims were transferred to the clinic #1 of the IMSS, located on Plan de
Ayala Avenue in Cuernavaca. One of the
wounded women died along the way to the clinic.
On February 6, in the neighborhood
Lauro Ortega in the municipality of Temixco, a family of five was
attacked. All were wounded, while three
died: two men and an eight month old girl.
This past weekend,
other violent acts occurred:
