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By: The opinion Posted Jun 21, 2023, 1:45 pm EDT
In Mexico City, there were moments of terror on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 20, as a shootout broke out at the Central de Autobuses del Sur that claimed the lives of two alleged assailants and left two guards injured, as well as a woman. who was on the site. The authorities reported that it was an attempted robbery and the dead people are the criminals.
Omar García Harfuch, Secretary of Security of Mexico City, confirmed on his Twitter account that the events that shocked the country’s capital were due to an assault on the personnel of a value transfer company, who repelled the aggression against them. , killing two of the criminals.
Several people were in the roomhoping to board the buses that would take them to various destinations in southern Mexico, for which they were surprised with the bullets that started out of nowhere, for which they had to take shelter to save their lives, and some managed to capture the moment.
How was the shooting experienced at the bus station?
The journalist Luis Gabriel Velázquez, through his Twitter profile, shared a clip of approximately 21 seconds where the moment in which the exchange of shots between the uniformed men and the aggressors was observed. Witnesses described the incident as “something horrible”.
A video taken from inside a ticket office shows people on the ground in the seats of the bus station, shots are heard and people run, some screaming, others crawling on the ground to move from the site. The person who records shoots an expression of surprise at someone who is with him.
Another recording shows the shooting from the truck loading area, while the detonations of firearms are heard, some operators run through the place and a man tells a woman: “Calm down, lady, stay there, they are bullets.”
Yesterday a shooting broke out at the South Bus Station (Taxqueña), an attempt was made to assault a valuables van, the result was a custodian and the cashier injured, but that’s how Claudia left CDMX, obviously if she couldn’t with a City, well less with a country #NoEsClaudia pic.twitter.com/KIVCljv20S
— EM GY EM #WonderWoman 🦋🌹💪🏻 🇲🇽 (@ANAIRAM76) June 21, 2023
A man gave a testimony to different media summarizing very well what happened, angrily replied to the reporters that he did not know who they had been, because they ran to get safe “suddenly we heard several tacatatacataca, two explosions and we all ran”. He reported that they entered the bathrooms and stores. “It seemed like a war, the windows were shaking, the whole world was shaking.”
He added that everyone was running, children, ladies with canes, “everyone was running to save us, my God, thank you that we are all well ”. He said that it was something horrendous, because they would never have expected that such ugly things lived in the middle of the City or central.
After the shooting at the site, elements of the National Guard and police from the capital arrived; Bus trips were suspended for several hours, until little by little normality returned, as always happens after acts of violence.
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