Gunmen kill 10 in north Mexico beer hall: official
Gunmen shot dead 10 people in a beer hall in broad daylight in north Mexico on Friday.
MONTERREY (AFP) - Gunmen stormed a beer hall in northern Mexico on Friday, killing 10 people in broad daylight in a suburb of the industrial city of Monterrey before stripping the bodies, authorities said.
Several armed men arrived in two vehicles before attacking people inside the bar in the municipality of Garcia at around 3:00 pm, an official in the state prosecutor s office said.
The assailants stripped seven bodies naked and left with 10,000 pesos ($650) in cash, the official said on condition of anonymity.
"Seven died at the scene of the attack and three more (succumbed to their wounds) in a hospital," said Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene.
Local police and soldiers rushed to the scene of the attack, which was cordoned off.
The motive of the shooting was not immediately known.
Garcia is the hometown of Jaime "El Bronco" Rodriguez, the former mayor who made international headlines on June 7 when he became the first independent candidate to win a gubernatorial election in the country.
The Nuevo Leon governor-elect gained fame when he was mayor from 2009 to 2012 after he defied the ultra-violent Zetas drug cartel.
Rodriguez says he survived two assassination attempts when he was mayor and that his daughter was briefly kidnapped when she was two years old.
Zetas leader Omar Trevino, alias "Z-42," was captured in March in another Monterrey suburb, the upper-class district of San Pedro Garza Garcia.
