Gang massacres 7 members of a family during Christmas
Those killed were three brothers, their father, their uncle, and a man and a woman who were invited to the home.
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The massacre occurred early Christmas Day outside a house in the village of Puente del Rey, where the gunmen shot dead the six men and one woman, aged 24 to 54.
Three of the victims were police officers, a regional security ministry official said.
Guerrero is one of Mexico's states most affected by brutal drug gangs which frequently battle each other, as well as carrying out kidnappings and extortion.
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It recently earned international infamy as a region where 43 students in 2014 went missing, and were presumably murdered, at the hands of corrupt police working for criminals.
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