MS-13 STORM FURAL members for a competitor member member in Guatemala, killing at least 7

Armed gang members stormed the funeral of a competitor member GuatemalaGovernment officials said that at least 7 people were killed and 13 others were injured.

Guatemala suffers from violent competition between Bario 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gangs. Interior Minister Francisco Jiminies blamed the attack at the funeral home on Tuesday in the capital, Guatemala, for their competition.

Jiminiz said the funeral was in a statement that a member of Bario 18 was killed on Monday. He added that “the members of the competing gang from Mara Salvaratha stormed the funeral home and shot the family and friends.”

The attackers, who arrived at the funeral house on motorcycles, fled the scene.

The authorities cordoned off the area where forensic teams regained the bodies.

Jiminiz said Wake was considered a “great danger” because of the “deceased profile”, and he regretted that police officers appointed to monitor the event had abandoned their jobs before the attack.

He described the situation as “unacceptable” and said that the officers of the Internal Affairs Unit will be investigated.

“If it is found responsible, it will be submitted immediately before the courts,” he said.

the MS-13 gang has been formed in Los Angeles In the eighties of the last century by Silvadori immigrants who fled the civil war in their homeland.

The brutal gang has spread since then to Guatemala and Honduras, and turned the region into one of the most violent in the world. It is a violent grip in Central America is one of the forces that lead thousands of immigrants to flee to the United States.

Earlier this year, the United States has identified MS-13 terrorist organization, as President Trump described it as “the worst and worst gang in the world” and “an evil group of people. They are sick and feared.”

The Barrio 18 and MS-13 gangs are fighting for regional control in Guatemala, extorting store owners, transport workers and civilians. Those who refuse to pay often kill.

The head of security in Guatemala said that the attack on Tuesday “was not directed against ordinary citizens, but rather as a result of the cancer represented by the gangs of the country.”

In 2024, Guatemala finished the murder rate of 16.1 per 100,000 people – twice the global average – according to the Ministry of Interior. However, the number decreased from 29.6 in 2014.

The authorities attribute half of the violent crimes to the activity of the drug cartel and regional conflicts between the gangs.