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A shooting at a bar in southeastern Mexico left seven people dead and five wounded, authorities said Sunday, the latest in a series of similar attacks in the violence-plagued country.
A manhunt was launched for the perpetrators of the shooting on Saturday night in the city of Villahermosa, in Tabasco state, the secretariat of security and civilian protection said in a statement.
"Five people lost their lives and seven were injured," it said.
"Analysis of video surveillance cameras is being carried out and elements of the state and federal authorities have deployed coordinated patrols to locate and arrest those responsible," it added.
The death toll initially stood at five, but the Tabasco public prosecutor's office later said two more people had died in the attack on what it described as "a clandestine bar that operated irregularly."
According to local media, unidentified gunmen burst into the bar La Casita Azul and opened fire at customers, leaving bloodied bodies strewn on the floor.
Tabasco, home to oil production facilities, has seen an increase in violent crime in recent months. Just last month, seven inmates were killed in a prison riot in Tabasco.
In November, six people were killed and 10 wounded in another armed attack on a bar in Villahermosa.
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Schools and some businesses were closed and few people walked the streets of a town south of Mexico's capital Tuesday, hours after five people were gunned down on the same street where another attack left eight dead just eight months earlier.
Huitzilac is at the center of a restive area in Morelos state with competing criminal organizations and illegal logging. Those killed were apparently campaigning for local positions managing the community's collective resources, like the surrounding forest, ahead of an election scheduled for March.
On Monday afternoon, just like every afternoon in recent weeks, four men and one woman from one of the groups competing in the local elections to manage the communal lands and forest were walking door to door campaigning. They were intercepted by gunmen in two vehicles and left dead on Huitzilac's main street.
"I told them years ago not to participate, there are always problems," said Blanca Delgadillo, whose son-in-law José Cuevas, a farmer, was among those killed.
Delgadillo, 70, said violence had overtaken the agricultural community in recent years, forcing its 20,000 residents to live in fear.
Mayor César Dávila Díaz, who took office Jan. 1, condemned the attack in post on social media, saying such e