{"id":492,"date":"2023-04-16T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ajmantimes.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2023-04-16T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T11:03:09","slug":"gunmen-kill-7-people-at-a-water-park-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/gunmen-kill-7-people-at-a-water-park-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill 7 people at a water park in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After the shooting, the attackers took the security cameras before fleeing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celaya: Gunmen stormed a water park in central Mexico on Saturday and killed six adults and a child, unleashing panic among those present, local authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police “arrived at the scene where they found… three dead women, three men and a seven-year-old minor, in addition to one person seriously wounded,” said a statement from City Hall in Cortazar, the municipality where the attack took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials in the Cortazar municipality in Guanajuato state said in a statement that an eighth person was seriously wounded in the midafternoon attack at the La Palma resort. The statement did not speculate on a possible motive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the shooting, the attackers destroyed the spa shop and took the security cameras before fleeing, officials said. Three women, three men and the child died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video posted on social media shows several people in swimsuits running about crying, screaming and hugging their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexican soldiers and police aided by a helicopter were searching for the attackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guanajuato, an agricultural and industrial hub, has been Mexico\u2019s most violent state for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the shooting, the attackers took the security cameras before fleeing Celaya: Gunmen stormed a water park in central Mexico on Saturday and killed six adults and a child, unleashing panic among those present, local authorities said. Police “arrived at the scene where they found… three dead women, three men and a seven-year-old minor, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}