Cartel blamed after nine killed at wake

Nine people were killed and one wounded when gunmen opened fire at a wake the central state of Guanajuato, officials said.

Public safety officials in the city of Celaya said in a statement that the gunmen arrived late Thursday night and opened fire on a group of people. The victims were standing outside a home in a low-income neighborhood where a wake was being held for a young man who himself had been gunned down nearby a couple of days before.

Guanajuato-based security analyst David Saucedo said the attack appears to have been carried out by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel against the dead man’s family. The killers apparently believed they were linked to the rival Santa Rosa de Lima gang, even though many people there may not have been.

“At that wake, a lot of innocent people died,” Saucedo said.