Prosecutors say that they cannot confirm how many died, because the attackers cleaned up the scene and carted away any bodies.
gunmen toting assault rifles. In a video apparently shot by a resident of the town San Jose de Gracia in the western state of Michoacan and posted on social media, bursts of gunfire broke out and smoke covered the scene.The body of a person is seen on a street while people take cover behind a vehicle, in San Jose de Gracia, Michoacan, Mexico, February 27, 2022 in this still image taken from a video posted on social media.
The attack Sunday occurred outside a funeral service for the mother of an alleged hitman who had worked for the Jalisco cartel. Jalisco has been fighting long-running, bloody turf battles in Michoacan against rival gangs. the Jalisco cartel to be"one of the five most dangerous transnational criminal organizations in the world."
State Prosecutor Adrián López Solís said that the hitman apparently died at the scene and that any other bodies were piled into pickup trucks and carted off by the attackers. Other videos posted on social media showed two or three bodies tossed into a pickup truck. López Solís said state and federal authorities learned about the attack from the social media posts, not from any alert by local police.There have been a string of recent attacks at funerals in Mexico, as cartel gunmen seek to exterminate members of rival gangs who attend the services.
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