Unidentified gunmen burst into a law firm in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara and killed seven people, officials said on Friday, in what appeared to be the latest round of drug slayings.Five men and one woman died in the shooting on Thursday afternoon at the office of the Rangel Garcia y Asociados law firm, which Mexican media said had high-profile drug smugglers among its clients. A second woman died of her injuries on Friday while another remained in hospital, seriously hurt, an official at the Jalisco state attorney general's office said. "We know that three or four of the deceased were attorneys," the official said, declining to be quoted by name.
Guadalajara is Mexico's second-biggest city and its colonial center is popular with tourists. Mexican has seen more than 300 killings by drug gang this year, as troops and federal police hunt cartel members in a crackdown that has intensified gang turf wars.
The first six victims in Thursday's shooting were found with their hands tied. They had been shot in the head from close range, according to Mexican newspapers. The daily Reforma said the firm handled several cases linked to drug smuggling. One client was the son of Mexico's most-wanted trafficker, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, head of the Sinaloa cartel.
Guzman's son, Archivaldo Ivan Guzman Salazar, was sentenced last month to five years in prison for money laundering.