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Americans in Puerto Vallarta were urged to stay indoors as narco gangs went on a bloody rampage after leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes was killed in a military raid on Sunday. Carnage spread up the west coast of the country through Sunday, with reports of attacks getting closer to the States in Baja California while gunfire erupted at Guadalajara International Airport.

Mexico's Attorney General's Office said on Monday that authorities have identified five bodies found at a property in El Verde, a rural locality in the state of Sinaloa, and are working to identify the remains of five other people. It is important to note that prosecutorial authorities have remained in contact with the victims' relatives, the office said in a statement. In the cases where the bodies have already been identified, they will be transferred to the states of Zacatecas in two cases, as well as to Chihuahua, Sonora, and Guerrero, it added.

Gunmen opened fire at a football match in central Mexico on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 12, authorities said. Cesar Prieto, the mayor of the town of Salamanca in central Guanajuato state, said in a statement posted to social media platforms that the gunmen arrived at the end of a match. Ten people were killed at the scene and one died later at a hospital. Prieto said a woman and a child were among the wounded.

The mariachi band had just struck up its first ranchera when Axel grabbed his mother's hand. Come on, mama! the lanky 16-year-old shouted, spinning Daniela beneath a canopy of paper lanterns glowing in the warm night air. The courtyard pulsed with music and laughter as cousins joined in, skirts twirling and shoes scuffing the ground.

Four decapitated bodies were found hanging from a bridge in Sinaloa, Mexico, amid escalating cartel violence, which claimed the lives of 20 individuals in one day.