“Officials the events that took place in Petaquillas (Guerrero) where two people were injured with firearms and five men and one woman were killed,” the office tweeted.

Local media reported that the ‘woman’ was actually a 14-year-old girl.

The gunman opened fire on the workers of the chicken production and sales farm on the side of the Mexico-Acapulco federal highway in the town of Petaquillas, according to local media reports.

In 2021, a total of 43,964 homicides were registered in Mexico, 699 murder victims more than the death toll reported a year earlier.

The number of homicides in Mexico, including intentional homicides and cases of manslaughter, grew between 2015 and 2018, before plateauing at around 44,000 victims per year, according to authorities, who attribute most of the killings to organized crime. (ILKHA)