Police found the gory scene when they responded to an emergency call received just after midnight in the city of Tizayuca, in the central state of Hidalgo, the state security service said in a statement. Officers discovered 11 bodies — seven of them female and four male, with two minors, state authorities said. Among the victims was a man with an ID identifying him as a Mexico City police officer. Hidalgo state prosecutor Javier Ramiro Lara Salinas said at a news conference Thursday that the preliminary investigation suggested the attack in a house near Tizayuca, just north of Mexico City, was a 'settling of scores'. The area had largely been spared the violence affecting other parts of Mexico.
Masked men attack a child's birthday party in Tizayuca, Hidalgo, killing 11 adults.