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Canadian killed, American wounded in Mexico shooting
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Aug 17, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A Canadian man was killed
and a Mexican-American badly wounded in a gun attack at a shopping center in
Mexico’s second city Guadalajara, prosecutors said Thursday.
A group of four people was entering the shopping center Wednesday night
when gunmen approached them in three cars, got out and opened fire, said
Jalisco state prosecutor Raul Sanchez Jimenez.
Canadian national Bugget Giuseppe was killed and a dual Mexican-American
citizen identified only as Alfredo M was wounded, he said.
A woman with them was unharmed, while the fourth person has not been
located.
Alfredo M was taken to hospital in a serious condition and has undergone
four surgeries so far, said Sanchez.
A security guard and a passerby were also wounded by bullet fragments.
Local television stations showed images of shattered shop windows in the
aftermath of the shooting.
Violence has increased in Guadalajara since March 2017 as the Jalisco New
Generation drug cartel has been riven by infighting, according to
authorities.
Mexico registered a record 28,711 murders last year, in violence driven
mainly by its powerful drug cartels.
Since 2006, when the government deployed the army to fight drug
trafficking, more than 200,000 people have been murdered. Another 30,000 are
missing.
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