| The minors who were executed along with their father in San Francisco del Rincón, their mother survived |
Between January and September of this year, 627 minors were killed with a firearmalmost 7 percent more than in the same period of 2021, establish data from the National Public Security System (SNSP).
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Most of the dead minors (from 0 to 17 years old) were with their parents or relatives when they were attacked or hit by bullets, according to information compiled by state authorities.
During these nine months of 2022, the states with the highest number of firearm homicides against children and adolescents were Guanajuato (101), Michoacán (89) and Zacatecas (68), warned the Network for the Rights of the Childhood in Mexico (REDIM).
“There is extreme violence against children and adolescents, this expression of violence is already a constant; the impacts of violence that Mexico is experiencing are touching the lives of girls and boys, not only adults, it is worrying that there is a 6.8 percent increase in murders of minors with firearms,” Tania Ramírez, director of REDIM, told Reforma.
In total, so far this six-year term – from December 2018 to September 2022 – there have been 9,213 homicides of minors.
On October 25, the sisters Carol, Karen Y Karime (17, 15 and 13 years old respectively) died after a gunshot attack at his home in San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuato.
On October 18, in Salvatierra, a minor under 15 years of age was murdered in her home; and on the same day Lion A 15-year-old teenager died after being shot while traveling by car with his family.
