SEVENTEEN PARTYGOERS SHOT DEAD IN MEXICO
Baku, July 19 (AZERTAC). An attack on a birthday party in the northern Mexican city of Torreon has left 17 people dead and more than a dozen injured, police say.
Gunmen sprayed bullets at revellers after storming the party inside a walled garden in the city in Coahuila state, across the border from Texas.
Drug gangs are fighting over the region, which is a key transit point along smuggling routes into the US.
Mexican officials are blaming an organised crime gang for the killings.
The attackers drove up to the party, taking place in the open but within the grounds of a recreation centre, before opening fire on those present with a machine-gun, reports said.
The victims, aged between 20 and 38, included the man who was celebrating his birthday.
The attack took place at around 0130 (0630 GMT) on Sunday in a recreation centre popular for weekend parties, the agency says.
More than 200 bullet casings fired from automatic weapons were found at the scene, officials said.
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