Eleven
people were killed in Mexico's Veracruz state by criminal gangs on Saturday,
including four children and the head of the state's federal police and two
other federal
police officers, Governor Miguel Angel Yunes said.
Veracruz is
home to rival drug cartels including the Zetas and Jalisco New Generation, or
CJNG, which are fighting over drug trafficking turf.
Armed gunmen
shot and killed the three police officers, including the head of the federal
police in Veracruz, Camilo Juan Castagne, at a restaurant in the city of
Cardel.
In the port
city of Coatzacoalcos, two adults and four children were killed, while two
women were killed in the city of Orizaba.
"We are
not facing human beings, we are facing beasts, cowards, villains, people who
are capable of killing children so as to have the citizens Veracruz living in
fear," Yunes in a video posted online as he visited the crime scene in
Cardel.
"We
will not allow them to impose their law of violence in Veracruz, we will not
allow organized crime to rule in Veracruz," he said.
Some 30,000
people have disappeared in Mexico since drug violence increased sharply around
2007. Since former president Felipe Calderon sent the army out to battle drug
gangs at the end of 2006 more than 150,000 have been killed.
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