{"id":115554,"date":"2021-02-28T15:56:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T07:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115554"},"modified":"2021-02-28T15:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T07:56:37","slug":"truck-borne-gunmen-kill-11-in-mexicos-western-state-of-jalisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115554","title":{"rendered":"Truck-borne gunmen kill 11 in Mexico&#8217;s western state of Jalisco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i-invdn-com.akamaized.net\/trkd-images\/LYNXNPEH1R028_L.jpg\" alt=\"Truck-borne gunmen kill 11 in Mexico's western state of Jalisco\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">A soldier guards the area where eleven people were killed when unidentified gunmen riding in a truck opened fire in Tonala<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MEXICO CITY, Feb 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Unidentified gunmen riding in a truck opened fire with rifles on Saturday to kill 11 people in Mexico&#8217;s western state of Jalisco, causing injuries to a woman and a youth as well, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jalisco, where a former governor was shot dead in December, is one of the epicenters of Mexico&#8217;s drug-related warfare, and home to the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state prosecutor&#8217;s office said 10 men with gunshot wounds were found dead outside a home in Tonala, a municipality in the Guadalajara area, with another male body discovered inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The injured woman and young man, who appeared to be a minor, were treated, the office said in a statement, but other details were not immediately known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in late 2018 pledging to reduce entrenched violence, but he continues to grapple with mass killings and tens of thousands of homicides a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In December, former Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval was shot dead in a restaurant in the beach town of Puerto Vallarta. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A soldier guards the area where eleven people were killed when unidentified gunmen riding in a truck opened fire in Tonala MEXICO CITY, Feb 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Unidentified gunmen riding in a truck opened fire with rifles on Saturday to kill 11 people in Mexico&#8217;s western state of Jalisco, causing injuries to a woman and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}