Ten dead at beer company after attack

An attack at a beer distributor in the Mexican state of Nuevo León has left 10 dead in what police are describing as a “gang dispute”.

The attack took place last Friday in Garcia near Monterrey and involved an “unknown member” of men who walked into the business and opened fire.

They apparently fled with 10,000 Pesos (£410) in cash and the clothing of the dead and dying.

Seven men died at the scene and another three in hospital. Police said they found weapons, ammunition and packages of drugs inside the distribution centre, which, it would appear, has been used for storing more than beer.

The site is apparently known to be a part of the trafficking operations of one of the most violent and feared of the drug gangs in Mexico, Los Zetas.

Nuevo León saw some of the worst gang related violence when then president Felipe Calderon launched his offensive against the cartels in 2006 that has left some 80,000 people dead and a further 22,000 missing.

Since 2013 the murder rate has, however, declined and the leader of the Zetas, Omar Trevino, was captured this March in a suburb of Monterrey.

The current governor-elect of the state, Jaime “El Bronco” Rodriguez, was previously mayor of Garcia and survived two assassination attempts by the Zetas during his term and his two-year-old daughter was briefly kidnapped.