(Mexico City) Nine people were killed Saturday when gunmen fired on their truck in Mexico, the prosecutor’s office said, according to which a conflict between landowners was at the origin of this attack.
The truck fell into “an ambush” in Nochixtlan in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, while it was transporting residents of a neighboring town, causing the death “on the spot” of nine people, a press release specifies.
Four others – three women and a man – were injured and hospitalized, adds the local prosecutor’s office, criticizing “aggressions between communities” which do not contribute to “solving the problems”.
The prosecution is working to identify the attackers, according to the same source.
This is the second attack this week in the state of Oaxaca regarding the ownership of agricultural land.
On Wednesday, five people were killed – a civilian, two police officers and two municipal officials – following a similar clash.
Conflict between communities over ownership of agricultural land is a decades-long problem in Mexico, particularly in indigenous regions in the south of the country.