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Five dead, one kidnapped in Mexico

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Gunmen in Mexico’s Veracruz state shot dead four men on Sunday hours after police killed an alleged criminal elsewhere in the region and another man was kidnapped at church, authorities said, reports AFP. Three armed men stormed into a nightclub called La Madame in the regional capital Xalapa Sunday morning, shooting four victims at a table inside. “Four elderly men were killed,” the state government said in a statement. Several more were injured, an official told AFP, without specifying a number. Local media reported that the attack injured 12 people.
Xalapa, a city of 525,000 residents, lies 290 kilometers (180 miles) east of Mexico City near the Gulf of Mexico. Around noon on Saturday, a group of armed and masked men entered a church in the port of Veracruz, west of
Xalapa, during a religious ceremony and dragged away a man before fleeing in two vehicles.
The church was packed with families gathered for the confirmation of several children, including the daughter of the kidnapped man, whom officials named as Agustin Urena Estrada. Security forces are working to find him, Veracruz Governor Javier Duarte tweeted. Authorities believe he belongs to an organized criminal group and is nicknamed El Chango, security officials said.
Also on Sunday morning, police killed another member of an organized criminal group during a clash in a bar in the city of Orizaba, south of Xalapa, the Veracruz government said in a separate statement.

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