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Shooting near Mexico’s presidential palace kills one
A shooting near Mexico City's Zocalo square and Presidential Palace on Monday killed one man and wounded two others. Mexico City's Security Secretariat called it a "direct attack". The deceased was a…
The Story in Brief
A shooting near Mexico City's Zocalo square and Presidential Palace on Monday killed one man and wounded two others. Mexico City's Security Secretariat called it a "direct attack". The deceased was a 42-year-old man, and two 39-year-old men were injured, the police said. The suspected attackers fled on a motorcycle, and an investigation is ongoing.
The attack happened in Santo Domingo Square, a colonial-era area known for producing and selling fake documents, local police said. While such shootings are common in areas controlled by narco-gangs, they remain unusual in the Mexican capital, despite the presence of street gangs like Union Tepito and Fuerza Anti-Union.
The Indian Opinion
Mexico's drug-war violence is often painted as a country-wide free-for-all, but this attack near the presidential palace is a rare breach of the capital's core. The narrative of a lawless Mexico needs a check: shootings are common in narco-controlled areas, not in the Zocalo. The real test is whether police catch the motorcycle-borne attackers and whether this was a targeted hit or a random street crime. Will the capital's security now tighten around symbolic sites?
Source: thehindu.com
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