Sunday, May 21, 2023

Ten people are dead and nine others are wounded after gunmen ambushed a group of drivers, in Mexico, taking part in a Baja California road race (in a race called "Cachanillazo") Saturday afternoon


Gunmen shot and killed 10 drivers and wounded nine others taking part in a road race on Saturday afternoon about 90 miles south of the border, according to the Baja California State Attorney General’s Office.

According to a news release issued by the AG’s office, the victims were parked in their “dune buggy” style race cars when several armed men jumped out of a late model silver SUV and started firing at the vehicles.

The ambush happened around 2:15 p.m. Saturday along the Transpeninsular Highway in the small town of San Vicente.

The racers were taking part in a race called the “Cachanillazo” that began earlier in the day in the city of Ensenada.

The Cachanillazo, a meetup and adventure ride for UTVs from Ensenada to San Felipe, on the Mexican Federal Highway 1 (Transpeninsular Highway) near San Vicente. 

According to Baja California State Attorney General Ricardo Iván Carpio Sánchez, the attack happened on Saturday at 2:15 PM local time. While Cachanillazo drivers were parked at a gas station in San Vicente, multiple gunmen, hooded and dressed in black, drove a silver van to their spot before getting out and opening fire. Ten men and one woman were reported to have died.

Footage of the shooting surfaced on social media, which showed the gunmen moving in and firing. Passerby videos revealed some of the victims were killed while inside or next to their UTVs. Police at the local, state, and federal levels as well as the fire department and Red Cross assisted in managing the scene.

The AG did not immediately confirm the identities of the attackers, though local news reported they were members of a drug cartel while some of the UTV tour’s participants were part of a rival group. Specifically, the attack stemmed from the ongoing conflict between the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS) and Tijuana Cartel (Arellano Félix Cartel, or CAF); the CDS is one of the largest drug syndicates in the world, whereas the CAF was regarded as a major power in the underworld in the 2000s before diminishing in strength, though they maintain a presence in Baja California and Tijuana.

1 comment:

  1. Mexico must have democrats. Every massshooting in the US for the past 30 yers or so was done by a democrat,

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