Salamanca nightclub shooting | |
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Location | Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico |
Coordinates | 20°34′40″N 101°12′44″W / 20.5777°N 101.2123°W |
Date | 9 March 2019 |
Attack type | Mass shooting |
Deaths | 15 |
Injured | 5–7 |
Perpetrators | ![]() ![]() |
On 9 March 2019, a mass shooting occurred in La Playa Men's Club, a nightclub in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. Fifteen people were killed,[3][4][5][6] and five to seven people were injured.[3][7] Fourteen victims were later identified as Jalisco New Generation Cartel members.[8] Witnesses described the attackers as a group of armed men who arrived in three vans.[3][4]
The Mexican government later alleged that the attackers were part of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and announced that they had identified several individual attackers.[1] Five days before the shooting took place, an operation was launched by the Mexican government to crack down on this cartel.[9] Two days after the shooting took place, the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel posted on Twitter that an CJNG member known as Julio, aka "El Trompas," was the main perpetrator of the shootings.[10]
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